Thinking

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h1. "" Suppose you take a rope and you walk over the equator.
If the rope is long enough you will have a rope of about 40.000 km.
Now you add 1 m. to the rope of 40.000.
Question is: How high will the rope be above the earth if we imagine that the distance is the same everywhere?
What do you think? Estimate.

The answer is here.

h2.
They call it ´free will or fate'

14 pieces. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
We take alternately one, two or three pieces.
Who has to take the last one has lost.
I begin and take one piece.
The point is: I will always win... nice game..

h3.
Information is required when we think.
If we play cards with 4 persons, it is nice to know the statistic distribution:

Distributions Hands  
4-4-3-2 8,617,681 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  
5-3-3-2 6,207,059 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  
5-4-3-1 5,168,880 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||  
5-4-2-2 4,236,511 |||||||||||||||||||||||||  
4-3-3-3 4,214,434 |||||||||||||||||||||||||  
6-3-2-2 2,257,476 |||||||||||||  
6-4-2-1 1,880,112 |||||||||||  
6-3-3-1 1,380,277 ||||||||  
5-5-2-1 1,269,084 |||||||  
4-4-4-1 1,197,601 |||||||  
7-3-2-1 753,084 ||||

"Chance favors the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis