arael

here's another for you tfp'ers

There is a hotel with infinite rooms (use your imagination please). A customer walks in and is told that all the rooms are filled. The ingenious hotel clerk thought of a way to clear up a room....

what did he do...

note this is a puzzle, so please do not question the logical validness of infinite rooms... just play along. this one is really easy, so feel free to post your thoughts

spived2

The clerk asked everyone to move to the number double the one they were in. So the guests in 1 moved to 2. The guests in 2 moved to 4. The guests in 3 moved to 6 and so on. This used up all the even rooms but left an infinite number of odd rooms vacant for the man.

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supafly

Crap, you beat me to it.

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Mephisto2

Alternatively, the clerk just tells all the guests to move to the room number one higher than their current room.

Guest Room 1 goes to Room 2
Room 2 to 3
3 to 4
ad infinitum

...except, Room 1 is now free.


Mr Mephisto

arael

hehe good job guys... ya, the clerk toldeveryone to move down a room :P

losthellhound

Good riddle.. I'll have to share that one

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gazzarc

If there are infinite rooms that are all filled then they must be filled by infinite persons, thus meaning that the infinite rooms is actually a larger number than the infinite persons in them, therefore the customer could have the next free room without the need for anyone to move. If however infinite rooms=infinite persons then they have no room to move to another room..???

Think about that one

herostar

the clerk left the room

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forseti-6

I was just going to say, evict one of the guests, lol

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Sho Nuff

yup. thats a lot easier than having everyone pack up all their shit and move.

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clifclav

I was just going to tell him to try the Holiday Inn down the street. Good one. Thanks

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Xell101

He removed one geust.

Paeder

thats hilarious man. my kind of logic.

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diergray

He would already have a room. There would be a room for everyone in existence.

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