Re: What You Think You Know
- From: "Paul Pedersen" <nospam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:39:28 -0800
Ha ha! Start 1/(2 pi) miles from the south pole.
That one took me a couple minutes.
So it wasn't a bear that chased the hunter, it was a penguin!
"Al Marino" <almarino_AT_intelliform.net> wrote in message
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Where else on the earth can you walk 1m S, 1m W, 1m N and be back at same
place ?
al
"Fred Taylor" <ftaylor@xxxxxxxx!REMOVE> wrote in message
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Question?
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"Al Marino" <almarino_AT_intelliform.net> wrote in message
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Actually, it is not clear since there are many more places where he can
do this
see my question below
al
"Fred Taylor" <ftaylor@xxxxxxxx!REMOVE> wrote in message
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White.
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Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
"Paul Pedersen" <nospam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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An oldie:
A hunter leaves home on foot, walking south two miles. Then he is
spotted by a bear, which chases him two miles west (the hunter is fast
on his feet). Having escaped the bear, the hunter walks two miles
north back home.
What color was the bear?
"Gene Wirchenko" <genew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Matthew Reed asked that I post some of my nasty questions. Here
are a few.
Since we in the computer field deal with many different areas of
knowledge, it behooves us not to think we know when we do not.
These questions are carefully designed to elicit an almost
immediate answer which is wrong. Correct by my standards means that
relevant details must be considered, not just the most obvious one
and
that if a question has more than one answer, just giving one of them
is not enough.
If you think you have the answer but can not see how there might
be some other answer, you probably have the wrong answer.
1) Which weighs more: an ounce of gold or an ounce of feathers?
2) You are in Alberta, Canada. You travel due east crossing exactly
one interprovincial border and find yourself in another province.
Which province are you now in?
3) A person dies one hundred years to the day from his birthdate.
How old was he when he died?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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