Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!not-for-mail From: Jerry Avins 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: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:10:07 -0500 Organization: The Hectic Eclectic Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3AACE6CF.7F05484D@ieee.org> References: <3AACB567.A59B8497@Azonic.co.nz> Reply-To: jya@ieee.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVbaU2k/UadDQGSu/1jkYG4b/TS3gUPsrwD09SShrQu7s1kFpMX+rJFK X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Mar 2001 15:10:20 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67532 comp.lang.apl:29369 comp.lang.awk:17092 comp.lang.beta:12739 comp.lang.cobol:102506 comp.lang.dylan:24152 comp.lang.forth:78506 Richard Plinston wrote: > > Steve Graham wrote: > > > > , and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, > > The question is: "Who owns the fish?" > > While the clues mention 4 pets: dog, cat, bird, horse, there is nothing > to indicate that the 5th 'pet' is actually fish. Thus the answer may be > 'noone', the 5th may be a goat. > > Other than that the problem is either unsolvable (if in fact there is > insufficient information) or mechanistic (if there is). I suspect that > 98% can't be bothered with it. I also don't believe that Einstein wrote > it. There is insufficient accurate information to solve this. While each individual smokes a different brand of cigar, Pall Mall (at least) is a cigarette. For all we know, they may all smoke that. Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. -----------------------------------------------------------------------