Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.shore.net!feedme.ziplink.net!petpeeve.ziplink.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AB8F6B5.41D59ADE@noho.com> From: "Dr. Andrew L. Blais" Organization: The Universe, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 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 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 59 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:42:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.15.153.58 X-Trace: petpeeve.ziplink.net 985200133 206.15.153.58 (Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:42:13 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:42:13 EST Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.ai.neural-nets:67673 comp.lang.apl:29515 comp.lang.awk:17289 comp.lang.beta:12814 comp.lang.cobol:103029 comp.lang.dylan:24255 comp.lang.forth:78753 Steve Graham wrote: > Who would be interested in using his/her brain (and his computer) to solve > the following? > > Steve Graham > > === > > Einstein's Riddle > > Albert Einstein wrote this riddle this century [ed. 20th century]. He said > 98% of the world could not solve it. > > There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person with > a different nationality. The 5 > owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and > keep a certain pet. No owners > have the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same beverage. > > The question is: "Who owns the fish?" > > Hints: > > The Brit lives in the red house. > > The Sweed keeps dogs as pets. > > The Dane drinks tea. > > The green house is on the left of the white house. > > The green house's owner drinks coffee. > > The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. > > The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. > > The man living in the center house drinks milk. > > The Norwegian lives in the first house. > > The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats. > > The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill. > > The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer. > > The German smokes Prince. > > The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. > > The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water. Using neural nets to catch fish? God cries when you waste a pun.... Doc Alb