Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc2.pa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AAC3139.5703EFD1@Home.Com> From: David Ness Organization: Mind/Matter X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.awk,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.cobol,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle References: <3AABD82E.C4D4E5CB@Home.Com> <4rVq6.559$ou4.12675@news.get2net.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:15:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.3.108.59 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc2.pa.home.com 984363305 24.3.108.59 (Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:15:05 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:15:05 PST Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67524 comp.lang.apl:29362 comp.lang.awk:17088 comp.lang.beta:12736 comp.lang.cobol:102475 comp.lang.dylan:24145 comp.lang.forth:78493 Jim Lucas wrote: > > You appear to be making an interesting claim, i.e., that the range of > techniques for solving this puzzle computationally is limited (and also too > simple to be interesting?), regardless of the language. Certainly, simple .... No. I wasn't making any claim, other than to say that I've done enough of the kind of puzzle suggested to lead me to believe that answers were likely to be boring, and would mostly involve discussion about modelling the (human) language that was used to present the problem. So far almost all of the responses that have appeared have suggested that this particular point is true. There is argument about `owning fish'. We have the possible answer `none'.There can be argument about whether `first house' means left-most or right-most. Stuff like that. Since I believe my own point, I'm not interested in playing with the problem, so I demur from worrying about a solution.