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Old Sun Mar 22, 2009, 12:38pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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A Lesson Learned For Life ...

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett View Post
Always one more than whatever you have.
This reminds me of my seventh grade math teacher, Mr. Fiore. He had a classmate stand about six feet away from a wall, and instructed him to take one step, at half the distance to the wall, toward the wall. He then instructed him to take another step, at half the distance of the first step, toward the wall, and to continue this procedure until he reached the wall. That was back in 1966, and my classmate may still be there.
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