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  1. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!newshost.cc.williams.edu!92bbb
  3. From: 92bbb@williams.edu (Bradford Behr)
  4. Subject: Re: How can you measure the following ?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.150328.12745@williams.edu>
  6. Keywords: stopwatch
  7. Sender: usenet@williams.edu (USENET News Administrator)
  8. Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
  9. References: <1992Nov19.115552.16917@daimi.aau.dk>
  10. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:03:28 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <1992Nov19.115552.16917@daimi.aau.dk> snil@daimi.aau.dk (Sven Nielsen) writes:
  14. >In how many ways can you measure the height of a tall building using only
  15. >these three tools : Stopwatch, barometer and tape measure.
  16.  
  17. Find a pawn shop. Sell the stopwatch, barometer, and tape measure.
  18. Hire a graduate student or unemployed ex-Soviet physicist to do the
  19. measurement.
  20.  
  21. :)
  22.  
  23. Brad
  24.