Here's a diversion of sorts to get you thinking a little. I pose the the following to you.
Suppose you are at one of those “all you care to eat chicken wings” restaurants and the platters come in of orders six, nine, and twenty wings. What is the most number of wings you cannot order? Remember that a million can be ordered by requesting 50,000 orders of twenty wings; and of course, you cannot order ten wind with any combination of 6, 9, or 20 (complete orders only, for instance you can't say "I'd like a half an order of 20 wings" - nice try though).
Suppose you are at one of those “all you care to eat chicken wings” restaurants and the platters come in of orders six, nine, and twenty wings. What is the most number of wings you cannot order? Remember that a million can be ordered by requesting 50,000 orders of twenty wings; and of course, you cannot order ten wind with any combination of 6, 9, or 20 (complete orders only, for instance you can't say "I'd like a half an order of 20 wings" - nice try though).
Be on the lookout for the answer that will be shared next week.
By the way, yesterday's post referenced 139,583,862,445 as a big number but far more are bigger. It's special because this is the 55th number in the Fibonacci sequence, following 53,316,291,173 and 86,267,571,272. Those are some big numbers.
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