On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > > Which reminds me of this puzzle I saw a couple of days ago: > > 1 + 4 = 5 > 2 + 5 = 12 > 3 + 6 = 21 > 8 + 11 = ? > > A mathematician immediately comes up with a "wrong" answer.
There are no "wrong" answers with these kinds of puzzles. There are only answers with varying degrees of parsimony with the known facts. I say the answer is clearly "banana" because the key to the puzzle is that everything matches a line from the following look-up table: 5 => 5 7 => 12 9 => 21 19 => banana -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
