Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.skycache.com!Cidera!cyclone-0.nyroc.rr.com!cyclone-out.nyroc.rr.com!typhoon.nyroc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Passaniti" 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 References: <110320011440274719%droleary@subsume.com> Subject: Re: Einstein's Riddle Lines: 22 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:15:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.95.200.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rochester.rr.com X-Trace: typhoon.nyroc.rr.com 984964558 24.95.200.197 (Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:15:58 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:15:58 EST Organization: Time Warner Road Runner - Rochester NY Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67631 comp.lang.apl:29453 comp.lang.awk:17243 comp.lang.beta:12791 comp.lang.cobol:102881 comp.lang.dylan:24220 comp.lang.forth:78678 mangogrower wrote in message news:YWbt6.2791$A2.819860@newsrump.sjc.telocity.net... > Who Cares, or there is not an answer that can be > determined from the facts. I'm amused by this thread. On the one hand we have the people who were forgiving of a bit of imprecision in language and who worked out the puzzle. Then we have the people who spend more time debating language and semantics who in their quest for precision apparently couldn't see that this was a pretty simple puzzle, demanding only a few minutes and some logic. At first I thought that the claim that only 2% of the people in the world could solve the puzzle was stupid, but now I see that it probably is true. That is, probably only 2% of the world would find it enjoyable to do a simple logic puzzle, and the other 98% would rather waste their time locked in seemingly endless debate over if animals can be owned and if a cigarette qualifies as a cigar.