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I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.





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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

Tony Cooper wrote:
I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.


5.72 (C$ - does that matter)



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Tony Cooper wrote:
I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.

None - for a couple of reasons.

1. I'm sitting in pocketless gymshorts, ergo have no pockets with change.

or (the answer you're looking for).

2. None. Instructions said to pull *ALL* of my change out of my pocket.
Therefore I have no silver (or any other change) in my "pocket right now".

Wait - you probably wanted the answer, but not the explanation.

Sorry

"Tony Cooper" wrote in message
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I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.

None. I don't have my pants on.

If, however, I went to my pants there is $1.45 US and 1.05 Euro.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:07:39 GMT, Tony Cooper
wrote:

I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.
I appreciate all replies, but - for the purpose of the survey - I'd
prefer just the amount. No comments.

There's no trick involved. No test of logic.
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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL

Tony Cooper wrote:

I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Silver? None at all. I've got some nickel and some copper and some
aluminum but no silver.

Thanks.

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Tony Cooper wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:07:39 GMT, Tony Cooper
wrote:

I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing
else.

Thanks.
I appreciate all replies, but - for the purpose of the survey - I'd
prefer just the amount. No comments.

There's no trick involved. No test of logic.

I think if you'd simply explain a bit you'd get more takers.
Otherwise, it comes accross as some sort of set-up line...

TMG wrote:
Tony Cooper wrote:

I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.


None - for a couple of reasons.

1. I'm sitting in pocketless gymshorts, ergo have no pockets with change.

or (the answer you're looking for).

2. None. Instructions said to pull *ALL* of my change out of my pocket.
Therefore I have no silver (or any other change) in my "pocket right now".

Wrong. Right now, just after reading the instructions, you have whatever
change there is in your pocket. You won't have nothing in your pocket
until you follow the instructions and pull it out. So I would say the
common sense answer would be correct.

Gary Eickmeier
Hi Tony
Hi TMG
Are you guys lost?

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:14:06 GMT, Tony Cooper wrote:

I appreciate all replies, but - for the purpose of the survey - I'd
prefer just the amount. No comments.

There's no trick involved. No test of logic.

No change in my pockets, but there wouldn't be much, if any silver
in them unless some of the coins were really old. No?

Gary Eickmeier wrote:


TMG wrote:

Tony Cooper wrote:

I'd like to ask a favor...a small survey for another newsgroup that I
frequent. If some replies come in, I'll explain the reason later.

Please reach in your pocket and pull out all of the change there and
tell me how much silver you have in your pocket right now. Not the
denominations or the breakdown...just the total amount. Nothing else.

Thanks.



None - for a couple of reasons.

1. I'm sitting in pocketless gymshorts, ergo have no pockets with change.

or (the answer you're looking for).

2. None. Instructions said to pull *ALL* of my change out of my
pocket. Therefore I have no silver (or any other change) in my "pocket
right now".


Wrong. Right now, just after reading the instructions, you have whatever
change there is in your pocket.

No - you're holding the change that *WAS* in your pocket. The *CURRENT*
count of change *in* your pocket, after following the instructions to
remove all Change from your pocket is *NULL*.

DELETE from pocket where cointype = 'Change'

SELECT from pocket where cointype = 'Change'
returns 0 rows

Comment: of course, you just deleted all the Change. Took that set out
of the pocket (first instruction). There is no Change in your pocket.

SELECT from pocket where cointype = 'Change' AND color = 'Silver'
returns 0 rows

Comment: Since there are no longer any matches for 'Change' in pocket
(following the first instruction to remove all Change from pocket), the
subset of 'Silver' clearly returns NULL. There is no Change in your
pocket, much less Silver change. SUM 'Silver' returns NULL


Hi TMG
Are you guys lost?

I got diverted via someone posting nonsense to usenet. That and I'm
actually into digital photog.


Good to see you here. And you got here.....?