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In article <6vcig3$eso$1@brokaw.wa.com>,
	jeeper@halcyon.com (Dennis Shinn) writes:
> Greetings
> 
> alun@texis.com (Alun Jones) posted the following
> 
>>As long as we're being silly, ....
> 
> All I needed was an invitation! (grin)
> 
> Place all the coins on a sheet of pie dough and watch how fast they sink. I
> one coin sinks faster than the rest, it's the heavy one and is fake. If all
> but one sink faster than that one then it's the lighter one and it's fake.
> 
> The elegance of this method is that there is no restriction on the number
> of coins you can test, merely limited to the amount of available pie dough.
> 
> 
> 

Hey, you can also use an applied approach of Murphy's law, thus if you use
one of the coins to pay a guy you know will check if it's fake or not, you
will always pay him with the fake coin and get busted...hmm...well you
won't know if it's heavier or lighter though...(sigh), back to scratch!

Ok, how about this:

You ask the man how he'd known it was fake, then he'd have to say that it
was lighter, heavier...or because the head was on the wrong side...or
he'd simply say shut up, or something drastic he'll regret when you sue
him later...

Here's another idea, if you drill a hole in the middle of all the coins
and hang them on a string (that is one coin per string) and you hang the
strings with the coin in the middle next to each other you will notice
that the fake will be the one hanging down more or less than the others,
depending on wether it's heavier or lighter.



/Andreas Magnusson

"Obesa cantavit."
http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md7amag