Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.netins.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!xmission!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!droleary From: Doc O'Leary Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:40:27 -0600 Organization: Subsume Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <110320011440274719%droleary@subsume.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Thoth/1.0.6 (Carbon/OS X) X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 22 Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67516 comp.lang.apl:29358 comp.lang.awk:17085 comp.lang.beta:12733 comp.lang.cobol:102469 comp.lang.dylan:24142 comp.lang.forth:78481 In article , Steve Graham wrote: > Albert Einstein wrote this riddle this century [ed. 20th century]. He said > 98% of the world could not solve it. Given that the heart of this is a simple logic problem, I have doubts that 90% of the world could not figure it out. Einstein, if he really was the one posing the riddle, clearly had something else in mind than the solution to a simple logic problem. Question: Who owns the fish? Answer: Houses are property, and thus owned by the men, but no man has the right of ownership over another animal. Note that the language of the puzzle never used ownership in referring to pets, only in the final question. Of course, the history of Germany has been one of attempted conquest, so what's the big deal of owning a fish or two when you think the world belongs to you? :-) <-- flamer's please note