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HAY MAKER
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 Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 11:58 am Post subject: Branding cattle with just 3 letters and 3 numbers |
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How many cattle could you brand.
good luck
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cracker hand
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| As many as I had!
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WVGenetics
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| More than I will ever own!!! but I'm going with 720.
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HAY MAKER
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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Any combination of any 3 letters and any combination of any 3 single digit numbers combined,how many cows can be branded ?
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Larrry
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Jinglebob
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sandtrap
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Would the answer be 2997 ?
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Silver
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm guessing tens of thousands, depending on your area. Considering there are 6 different locations on the animal it can be put, and each character can be oriented several ways, arranged side by side and one above the other or a combination of the two..... kinda makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
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Cowpuncher
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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I would guess it would be 46,656.
There are 10 numbers and 26 letters or a possibility of 36 different characters in each position.
Therefore 36 x 36 x 36 is 46,656.
At least a full day of branding, right.
Thiis would, of course assume the characters are right side up
and in one place on the cattle.
If you allow the characters to be oriented in four ways, you would
get 144 x 144 x 144 or 2,985,984. If there are 10 places to brand a critter, you would get 29,859,840.
If you really want to get precise, adjust the numbers downward for zeros and o's which look the same any which way.
I'm not going to figure that one out.
cp
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myersfarm
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I will just take a shot in the dark..351 520 000
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Jinglebob
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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In SD you must use at least two and no more than three and our brand book is really really thick!
So maybe all of the cattle n the US?
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myersfarm
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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I made my guess but in my answer you would be able to brand
AAAAA1
would that be alouded our not
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