dracoms wrote:
Not everyone here's a native speaker.
I don't think Hessian's post was a criticism.
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Is it hard to compensate for his lack of English skills by trying to understand the problem in a way that makes more sense intellectually? Unless you believe he asked a stupid question, which I'm sure would be more insulting to him...
I don't know. He tried his best. Cut him some slack.
dracoms wrote:
Is it hard to compensate for his lack of English skills by trying to understand the problem in a way that makes more sense intellectually? Unless you believe he asked a stupid question, which I'm sure would be more insulting to him...
I don't know. He tried his best. Cut him some slack.
That was a great riddle. I understood what he meant because I heard it before only with switches instead. I am an Electrician and a Saftey Woman threw out that riddle to a room full of Electricians (the big Bosses). They all were drawing circuits and the more I thought about it the only way to narrow it down was to make one of the bulbs hot. I won, and the Bosses were pissed. By the way we were all getting paid to figure it out.
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Yeah I've heard it before too. Really there is not enough information to answer correctly, so the real puzzle whiz will ask what type of bulb, and maybe how high up are they?
ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:
Yeah I've heard it before too. Really there is not enough information to answer correctly, so the real puzzle whiz will ask what type of bulb, and maybe how high up are they?
The ballast part of the Pig Tail bulbs will still be warm. Energy creates heat where ever it travels.
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And wait, now I have to go return these "cool" bulbs I bought from the hardware store??
ozzie_c_cobblepot wrote:
What about LEDs?
Look if you can light your backyard with LED's then real light bulbs may be replaced. When I solved the problem Popcicle Lights weren't used.
sarsaila wrote:
Well, forget about the bulb puzzle (which is not really a sound puzzle since you are not given all the information needed to solve it).
What part were you missing. It was solved by 2 or 3 members in the beginning and another guy later on?
sarsaila wrote:
And, in case you solve the previous puzzle too quickly, here is another one.
Is it always possible to partition a class of n students into two subsets such that no student has more than half of his friends in his own subset? Here n is an arbitrary integer.
It seems so. Is this a trick question?
sarsaila wrote: No, it is not a trick question. Can you prove that such a partition is possible?
Probably not.
sarsaila wrote:
HessianWarrior wrote:
sarsaila wrote:
Well, forget about the bulb puzzle (which is not really a sound puzzle since you are not given all the information needed to solve it).
What part were you missing. It was solved by 2 or 3 members in the beginning and another guy later on?
The problem cannot be solved if the only information you can obtain about the bulbs is by turning them on/off and seeing how many are on.
What a Dunce, the problem isn't solved by an equation, it's solved by by flipping your fingers and then using your brain.
oinquarki wrote:
sarsaila wrote: No, it is not a trick question. Can you prove that such a partition is possible?
Probably not.
If you can't answer it Quirk then it's a Bullsh#t question.
sarsaila wrote:
HessianWarrior wrote:
What a Dunce, the problem isn't solved by an equation, it's solved by by flipping your fingers and then using your brain.
Then the puzzle should have said that you can touch the bulbs. These kind of problems are called brain-teasers: the solution ussually comes by using something that you didn't know you can use. Here is another example:
A teacher, in the first school-day, notices that she has two identical boys in her class. "you two are twins, isn't it?" she asks. "No, we are not". Yet looking in her records, the teacher saw that the two boys have the same parents and they were born on the same day. Did the boys lie?
They're triplets.
Or more generally, multiple birth babies.
Assume there are 10 students...or whatever number you choose.
Student x is friends with Bob, x+1 and x+2.
Pretty sure the group is now indivisible.
sarsaila wrote:
HessianWarrior wrote:
What a Dunce, the problem isn't solved by an equation, it's solved by by flipping your fingers and then using your brain.
Then the puzzle should have said that you can touch the bulbs. These kind of problems are called brain-teasers: the solution ussually comes by using something that you didn't know you can use.
Like your Brain? Think outside the box Einstein.
HessianWarrior wrote:
sarsaila wrote:
HessianWarrior wrote:
What a Dunce, the problem isn't solved by an equation, it's solved by by flipping your fingers and then using your brain.
Then the puzzle should have said that you can touch the bulbs. These kind of problems are called brain-teasers: the solution ussually comes by using something that you didn't know you can use.
Like your Brain? Think outside the box Einstein.
Applying a practical solution to this type of puzzle is a cheat. Once you start making up your own parameters, what's the point?
Not everyone here's a native speaker.