On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com>: > >> On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:37:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> >> declaimed the following: >> >>> >>>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. >>> >> >> I'm coming up with "96", on the basis that the "+" is a >> placeholder for a non-standard operation > > That's a mathematician's "wrong" answer. Stefan Ram's answer is the > intended one.
Ian's answer has better justification. I'm going to support "banana". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
