X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:41:20 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.68] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.10) with ESMTP id 2157846 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:26:28 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=209.86.89.68; envelope-from=petervana@earthlink.net DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=MmWDLi7mYLnr6cKEACGhRMktjyIJkegYPRwS7l7p4LCUhg+jOW+fpRIGIVY5vGey; h=Received:From:To:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Thread-Index:Content-Language:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [70.245.237.197] (helo=PETER) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1I65nj-0000gb-8X for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:25:51 -0400 From: "Peter Van Arsdale" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: ADAHRS TSO puzzler X-Original-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:26:00 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <00bf01c7be47$3f890bd0$be9b2370$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00C0_01C7BE1D.56B303D0" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Ace+MWuGvZ4jUw1RQH6XbmEqPKTrLgAE7vbA Content-Language: en-us X-ELNK-Trace: 01ccb85ccd9a2f2514f7f38be4e43d6c7e972de0d01da9401757c29919564f515f058ec77d3db648350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 70.245.237.197 This is a multipart message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00C0_01C7BE1D.56B303D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When thinking about the problem, I envisioned a balance beam scale as being one that has a beam that can weigh one item at a time and the only way to compare two groups would be to make two measurements. In searching the web it appears that the scale that compares weights is a balance and a balance beam is one that has a weight or weights that slide back and forth. So using a balance beam scale I think it would take 5 weightings to find the rogue piston. Regards, Peter Peter Van Arsdale St Louis (314) 677-4814 ------=_NextPart_000_00C0_01C7BE1D.56B303D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

When thinking about the problem, I envisioned a balance = beam scale as being one that has a beam that can weigh one item at a time and the = only way to compare two groups would be to make two measurements.  In = searching the web it appears that the scale that compares weights is a balance and a = balance beam is one that has a weight or weights that slide back and = forth.  So using a balance beam scale I think it would take 5 weightings to find = the rogue piston.

 

Regards,

 

Peter

 

Peter Van Arsdale

St Louis

(314) 677-4814

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