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Hard to see how 0 pairs of rabbits could produce any offspring, let alone a total population of 354224848179261915075 after 100 months.
How's this for a possible workaround: One rabbit, a pregnant female. That still means you have zero pairs of rabbits, but could produce as many future coneys as anybody could wish could for.
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Full marks for original thinking, Max, but there's another complication we need to get around, even if we allow the original bunny's 0.5 pair to be rounded down in perpetuity. In order to produce the Fibonacci series, the original female cannot reproduce again after she gives birth to her first pair of kittens. Does she die during birth of her offspring, do we need to introduce a well-timed trauma to her reproductive organs, or are we talking some kind of one-off lapine Divine conception here? Not so far-fetched for a rabbit society where everyone has eternal life? But perhaps this line of thinking has gone far enough.....
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She contracts Rabbit calicivirus the day after giving birth and is dead within weeks.  BTW, can you have half a pair? Since a pair is two of anything, isn't it possible, at least semantically, to argue that it's an all-or-nothing deal? Either you have a pair or you don't, that 0.5 pair, is, by definition, not a pear?
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If you're gonna get all eschatological about bunnies and the afterlife, do call me to the thread.
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Good one, pastor. Where were you when I was struggling with that impossible Latin grace a couple of weeks ago??
Per cuniculum exanimum caliciosum nostrum. Amen.
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>algorithm is based on the number of posts required at each level: (so far 25, 50, 100, 200, 300)
Actually isn't it 25,25,50,100,200,300 so far, like the 1,1, at the start of the Fibonacci sequence?
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Phew - made it before Shona!
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Congratulations. I am considering congratuitousness in posts just to catch up. And yes, I made up that word. (Maybe I can re-post this in Wordplay and Fun?)
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Bother. Even with all this frippery, I'm 17 posts shy of Shona...
Pretty pathetic innit (!!), when all these alleged intellectuals finally succumb to plain and simple rat-racing?
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all this fripperyshanks, me old son, I'd be well behind you if posts were marked on intellectual worth! And you're not far behind now. I probably won't be doing much AWAD-wise this weekend due to other commitments ( hah! famous last words), so go for it. See you there. Well done Jo! Now we have a 3-piece suite, don't we? http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Board=miscellany&Number=6904
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