Hi, John,
> Presumedly you continue to take one spoon from the mug of milk,
> stir it into
> the mug of coffee, and return one spoon of the resulting mixture to the
> milk. And so on.
>
> If this is what you meant, there will always be slightly more milk in the
> milk mug, though each time the mixing occurs the proportion will move
> towards being more equal, though in theory it never quite gets there. A
> variant on the hare and tortoise, I think.
The puzzle simply proposes doing the exchange ones (from the milk mug into
the coffee mug, and then a return spoonful of that mixture to the milk mug),
though it could be repeated without doing violence to the thesis of the
puzzle....
Lawry
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