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please, do continue to offer your opinions about possible ways to interpret solutions .. we've had several already posted .. others have been suggested to me in Tells proposing alternative analysis using roll-outs and different GNUbg evaluation settings

reader's comments and suggestions are more than half the fun and educational value of this problem series .. my intent all along has been to complie sets of problems frequently missed by voters along with comments and observations by other fibsters, expert or not, regarding better ways to detect and avoid mistakes we all make, even the experts

keep on voting .. only one vote per reader is allowed and the results of a poll are only displayed after you have voted . answers will be provided in the form of GNUbg analysis TXT files attached to the original or subsequent posts

there is a thread discussing the evolution of this problem posting style and other suggestions at posting a position as a problem was a problem in our Feedback & Questions forum .. please contribute there with any suggestions or comments

if you have questions on posting a problem, please contact me or just give it a try .. we can always edit it later .. i'll soon have a post describing several ways to do it

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