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A man wishes to Travle up a building in a lift stpping at some floors. He wishes to travel up the building in eaqaul steps. which are the first three floors it would be impossible for him to reach on or after secound leg of his journel?

(the lift does not go up one floor at a time)

let me know you answers, will post solution soon.

jammie

*has no clue*

I think I may have misunderstood the question, but I'll give it a shot anyway.

The question leads you towards saying the first three odd numbered floors, but as there is no zeroeth floor, the answer should be two, four and six. Once again, assuming I understood the question.

What's the prize again??

the ground floor is effectively the zeroeth floor, so i'm saying 5, 7, 11, assuming i understand the question correctly...

Well it seems confusing with poor spelling so I'm not sure I understand exactly what is being asked here?

Also some countries consider the ground floor as the first floor and others consider the ground floor as the 'zero' floor.
Another thing is many buildings don't have a floor labelled as floor thirteen as it is unlucky, and of course basement and lower ground floors, making the question highly subjective to local circumstances.

well done peebo, you are correct the floors are the prime numbers.

sorry about my spelling i do try!

the question would not work with the floor zero as you cannot trval from the bottom up on floor
and as he is travaling up it is safe to assume he is on the roud floor allredy
jammie

Why would it be impossible to go to floors that are primenumbers?
Wouldn't it depend on who designed the lift? what algorithm governs its movements? does it use fuzzy-logic or is it dumb? how many floors are there in the building? etc etc etc

or maybe I didn't understand the question?

to confuse matters further, a lot of tall buildings don't have a 13th floor!

eipsa: i think you misunderstood the question, the pint was with the pattern i (tried) to define it would not be possible.

Incidentally i like your screen name aspie backwards is an awesome name

jammie