Scrooge's life, money, and bin

Harry Fluks H.W.Fluks at research.ptt.nl
Fri Aug 13 11:50:28 CEST 1993


Torsten:

> *** plot revelation *** read at your discretion ***
> 
> I seem to recall a story where Donald raced Scrooge to the top of a
> mountain.  Donald did it the hard way, by climbing up the mountain, while
> Scrooge simply piled coins along the vertical face of the mountain and
> built a staircase!  Now, assuming he used only one type of coin, and used
> a constant slope, how much would this staircase be worth?
> 
*** NOT YET end plot revelation ***

But that whole story was a DREAM, remember?
(In fact, Barks decided to change the original ending into a dream ending,
because it looked too unlikely to be true.)

> *** end plot revelation ***

--Harry.



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