Re: SQL Fun Challenge #2

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:<4047014d$0$22386$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net>...
> "Noons" <wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
> news:73e20c6c.0403040013.543cb30a_at_posting.google.com...
> > Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:<1078359740.735908_at_yasure>...
>
> > Hmmm, still not happy. Let's assume that a kid
> > cannot be born within one year from the other
> > (or else Mum will declare war...):
>
> In addition to all of Jonathan's comments the above assumes one mother in
> common for each of the 3 children whereas the puzzle as originally stated
> allows for 1,2 or 3 mothers per father (though the liklihood of this with
> mathematicians is admittedly vanishingly small).

I'm having trouble understanding why there can't be triplets. It's not like they all come out at the exact same time (imagine her waxing onomatopoetically if they did!), one is eldest.

jg

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