Actually, Painter A wil eventually overtake Painter B and the room will end up A's color. Right? Randy "Simpleton" Keefer On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 15:21:37 -0500, Rao, Ragu <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >If both A and B are working together to make sure that they dont repaint the >same area already painted by the other then it should take 12/7 = 1.714286 = >1 hour 42 minutes 51 seconds. > >However if both A and B (does not matter whether working together or not) >are painting with DIFFERENT COLORS of PAINT, then its a infinite loop.. It >will never end.. > >-Raghu > >* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * >* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *