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To: B Knotts
So, if you and an anchor are in a row boat in a swiming pool, and you throw the anchor overboard. Does the water level go up or down?

The question is a good example of how the mind can alter the math.
14 posted on 09/08/2003 12:05:33 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: Dead Dog
Down ...
22 posted on 09/08/2003 12:41:03 PM PDT by tx_eggman
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To: Dead Dog
"So, if you and an anchor are in a row boat in a swiming pool, and you throw the anchor overboard. Does the water level go up or down?

Down, unless the anchor floats, in which case it is not much of an anchor.

23 posted on 09/08/2003 12:43:43 PM PDT by MrNeutron1962
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To: Dead Dog
Measured on the side of the pool, down.
26 posted on 09/08/2003 12:51:03 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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