On Thu, 7 Sep 2017 01:31 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > 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
Well played sir! -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
