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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!shaftesbury.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e274026$0$2540$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: n+1 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:52:50 +0100 References:  Lines: 13 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To:  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: ae7bdfb9.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=_S[;2>F`Vd]Yc[1P^7aZk\nok4Z\ Amoung cycling enthusiasts, such as myself, there is a general formula > for the number of bicycles desired: > > If n is the number of bicycles owned, n+1 is the number desired.

But if you've figured that out, then why bother getting any more bicycles, if you know that however many you've got, you'll always be in the same situation, always wanting another one and never being satisfied? Surely having 8 bicycles but desperately wanting 9 is just as bad as having 4 but wanting 5?

Seems a bit like an addiction to me. ;-)