Odometer Trouble
Once upon a time, the Acme company had a factory that made golf carts. One day, Bob, the president of Acme, decided to add an odometer to the carts so that the purchaser of the cart could estimate when to recharge the battery. To save money, Bob decided to buy the little numbered wheels for the odometers and have his employees put the odometers together. The minimum order was for a thousand odometer wheels, which was more than he needed for his initial run of 50 odometers. When he got the wheels, however, he noticed that they were defective. Instead of the numbers 0–9, each wheel had only two numbers, 0 and 1. Of course, he was quite irritated by this error and attempted to contact the company from which he had purchased the ...
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