OK, I just send a PM to Brad containing the answer to his question.
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OK, I just send a PM to Brad containing the answer to his question.
I thought that we were suppose to send private messages.
And for Xeon. Brad Jones never said it was Hot, just that the sun was shining and the birds were out. I'm not sure of any birds in the North Pole, but it might get some in the summer. Although right at the North Pole, I don't think that there would be much of a temp. change.
I edited the post fast and sent it as private message to Brad. I did this because there is no "Preview message" option. I'm sorry if you could read it in the mean while and that I spoiled the answer.Quote:
I thought that we were suppose to send private messages.
The fact that birds are singing does not matter. You can even hear beards singing inside a nuclear reactor control room, at least when you have a cage near you. Nobody said the birds are outside.Quote:
And for Xeon. Brad Jones never said it was Hot, just that the sun was shining and the birds were out. I'm not sure of any birds in the North Pole, but it might get some in the summer. Although right at the North Pole, I don't think that there would be much of a temp. change.
Answer to my riddle (did not invented it thought!!): :)
1) the man take the sheep and bring it to the other side.
2) the man go back "alone"
3) the man take the lettuce and bring it to the other side.
4) the man come back with the "Sheep"
5) the man trade the sheep for the wolf, and take the wolf to the other side
6) the man come back "alone"
7) the man take the sheep to the other side (as Yves M. make me remarks (which has already traveled twice and is now wondering what this guy is up to) :D
As you see, it is pretty simple, I have receive three answers, only two were correct:
Congratulations to solarflare and Yves M. The actual winner is solarflare since he send it at first ;)
Edit:
After reviewing, dimm_coder was having the answer, but the private post just screw the "space" and I did not understand it. With some explanations, dimm_coder deserve the second place :)
JeffB
Another one:
On a field there is an apple tree. On the tree there are two apples. After a while, there are no apples on the tree, and no apples on the ground. Knowing that no human or animal was there, and the tree is not placed on top of some hill so that the apples could roll away, explain what happened.
PMs, please.
I didn't want to participate since this is a modified version of another riddle that I got once by mail. That version is funnier too. It can be downloaded over here. It uses Flash. While trying to find it back with Google I've noticed there is a VB version of this puzzle too over here.Quote:
Sheepy, Wolfy and a poor lettuce head!
Can be everything:Quote:
On a field there is an apple tree. On the tree there are two apples. After a while, there are no apples on the tree, and no apples on the ground. Knowing that no human or animal was there, and the tree is not placed on top of some hill so that the apples could roll away, explain what happened.
PMs, please.
It became autumn and they rotted away after a while? A twister? An attack from Al Qaeda? An asteroid impact? An atomic bomb? A temporary reverse in gravity?
Ok, let me make it clear: "after a while", means a few hours, at a maximum. And there was no extra-ordinary phenomenon there - no atomic bomb, no aliens, ET also wasn't there etc, etc.Quote:
Originally posted by Simon666
Can be everything:
It became autumn and they rotted away after a while? A twister? An attack from Al Qaeda? An asteroid impact? An atomic bomb? A temporary reverse in gravity?
I got one.
This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it - and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching. If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good luck - don't blow your cool!
I didn't make this up, so please don't cheet.
Woohoo! Victory lap!Those who dared defy me now bow in my wake.Quote:
The actual winner is solarflare since he send it at first
Oh, by the way, after the man crossed the river, he ate the cabbage, shot the sheep and fed it to the wolf, shot the wolf and ate that too, then got killed by a whole bunch of natural disasters, so it didn't even matter that he crossed the river, but please, please just let me have my dignity.
And now Jeff tell me why my diagram was incorrect by your meaning? Or you didn't got my PM?
Ohh, I write it, but when I have post this message I understand
myself , Why U didn't understand me. This diagram was looking
pretty when I was writting it, but when I had post it, I saw
it had horrible looking. All space characters were constricted,
and diagram was misunderstanding.
SORRY Jeff for my PM with it. Next time I'll check PM before posting. Above this diagram in more understand view I think.
And it keeps right answer.
left boat right
lettuce, wolf, sheep
1(<-) left( - ) , boat( man + sheep ) right( lettuce, wolf)
1(->) left(sheep), boat( man ), right( lettuce, wolf )
2(<-) left( sheep ) , boat( man + lettuce), right( wolf )
2(->) left(lettuce ), boat( man + sheep ), right( wolf )
3(<-) left(lettuce), boat( man + wolf ), right( sheep )
3(->) left(lettuce,wolf), boat( man ), right( sheep )
4(<-) left(lettuce,wolf) boat( man + sheep) , right(-)
end: left( lettuce, wolf,
sheep)
number is a number of trip
<- part of trip to another side
-> come back to first side
left - is another side of the river
boat - Whois on boat in this trip
right - this side of river
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Ok, I have task now, I posi it after tasks by Brad and Gabrial
will complete.
Dimm_coder, could you please wait a bit, we still have a task from Brad and one from Gabriel. Please withdraw it for now.
Ok Simon. I 'll post it in some near future.
But next task - is that task from me ;)
I have post PM to Brad with answer for task about bear,
and to Gabrial, I think that possible reason for apples at least :rolleyes:
About task from Gabrial.
May be it consist some trick? Why 2 apples? It' s no matter how much apples?
Ooo... heh... May be it two Apple Mac computers hanging by malicious horrible Bill Gates? :D
From Dimm_Coder:
Oh really! So sorry! I didn't see that! :):DQuote:
First: post answers only by private messages.
From Platinum Plus:
Cool! Thank you, Platinum! Yes, yes....my ego is boosted. ;)Quote:
Beep .... wrong Professor Pentium !!! Xeon
From Goodz13:
The sun was shining and the birds are out. Unless u're trying to be cool or u're acting indifferent, u would obviously picture a cute house with a tree beside it, and the sun is shining down onto the house while the birds are perchingon a branch of the tree, singing. ;)Quote:
And for Xeon. Brad Jones never said it was Hot, just that the sun was shining and the birds were out. I'm not sure of any birds in the North Pole, but it might get some in the summer.
From SolarFlare:People who dared defy SolarFlare:(names are in Order.......1st is the No.1 defier)Quote:
Those who dared defy me now bow in my wake.
No. 1 : Xeon
No. 2 : Janet
No. 3 : Simone(****)
No. 4 : Hart
No. 5 : Amelie
No. 6 : Lynn
No. 7 : Mary
No. 8 : Jane
:):D
Xeon, now why the H E double toothpicks does your name appear on top of a list of **** like names :(Quote:
Originally posted by Xeon
People who dared defy SolarFlare:(names are in Order.......1st is the No.1 defier)
No. 1 : Xeon
No. 2 : Janet
No. 3 : Simone(****)
No. 4 : Hart
No. 5 : Amelie
No. 6 : Lynn
No. 7 : Mary
No. 8 : Jane
:):D
From Platinum :That's cos' I'm the No. 1 guy who dares to defy SolarFlare! That's why I'm appearing on the top of the list!Quote:
Xeon, now why the H E double toothpicks does your name appear on top of a list of **** like names
As for the list of ****-like names, it's all because I'm the one caring for them. Don't you know that I'm the Appointed Carer-Pamparer-Babysitter of all gurls alive????!!
God!!! :):D
Somebody call child abuse please. :rolleyes: Another thing, can Brad and Gabriel post the answers, so we can go on with a new task?Quote:
I'm the Appointed Carer-Pamparer-Babysitter of all gurls alive
Yes!!!
Brad and Gabrial please post your answers.
For Brad task it's easy, because there is only one place where
such house can stand.
But I don't know where those apples. I even lose my composure trying to find them every place.
Gabrial , pleeeaaaseee :( , say all us where you have hide them.
And after that, I'll post here new logical task.
I've only have one guess about my strange paragraph and it was the right one.
Yves M got it right.
There is no "e" in my paragraph. "e" is the most common letter in the english language and it isn't used once.
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There is no "e" in my paragraph. "e" is the most common letter in the english language and it isn't used once.
Now common? How good for you. You must carry humongous satisfaction for your own thinking. I think a normal man could not do such a thing without having any kind of abnormal braincapacity. I think you own such a capacity, so congratulations to you for having such an almost miraculous ability. Having a smart man as you around is an uncommon and unsual thing, I can truly admit that. I'm wishing right now that in an hour or day or month, I could also do such a thing. But I think this wish will stay, for it is a profanity, nobody can tip Goodz13, God of unusual paragraphs. I am just Simon666, Satan's incarnation, I am too dumb to show proof that I can do as good.
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Note that previous line also doesn't have an "e" and that Goodz13's paragraph also does not contain a z or an x. It would really (only) be an unusual paragraph if it contained all letters except one, and if it were the "e", it would be truly exceptional. I invented last paragraph, so it appears you really do not have to be such a genious to figure such a thing out. However, non Engish speaking people do not know that "e" is the most common letter. Please, next time, use something that non-English people can figure out to. Although I have to admit Yves M is non English.
I will re-post the riddle, for your convenience. And I will mark the important parts of it:
Solution: one apple falls from the tree. On the tree there are no apples (but apple) and on the ground also are no apples (but apple).Quote:
On a field there is an apple tree. On the tree there are two apples. After a while, there are no apples on the tree, and no apples on the ground. Knowing that no human or animal was there, and the tree is not placed on top of some hill so that the apples could roll away, explain what happened.
The solution actually is very similar to that of Brads' riddle with the coins.
JeffB provided another solution, which I didn't think of:
:)Quote:
The apples are falling off the tree, THEY ARE IN MID AIR so not on the tree, and not yet on the ground!
Gabriel and Brad and Goodz13, with your little word games you have just toppled Monthy Python qua extreme sillyness. :D :rolleyes: :o I notice this is apparently a moderator thingy.
Ok. Another logical task from me.
U have got 80 coins. U have known that 1 of them is false coin
and that this false coin weighs some less than each of other
real coins. Also U have assay balance (cup scales).
Now Question: How not more than 4 deliberations U can find this
false coin?
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My English is not good of caurse.
Have I written right word - Assay balance?
Assay balance - it's such type of weight I have mean.
HUH!! So these are different :Quote:
Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
I will re-post the riddle, for your convenience. And I will mark the important parts of it:
Solution: one apple falls from the tree. On the tree there are no apples (but apple) and on the ground also are no apples (but apple).
The solution actually is very similar to that of Brads' riddle with the coins.
-There is no apples on the ground
-There is no apple on the ground
hum... I was not aware of such "synthax" in english, anyway, good riddle.... so no one got it?!!!
JeffB
There is only one place where such house can stand ( all windows
look at south ) - it's Noth Pole. It's key for task as I think.
And what kind of bears live on Noth Pole. I think only White.
Am I right?
WRONG! :pQuote:
There is only one place where such house can stand ( all windows
look at south ) - it's Noth Pole. It's key for task as I think.
And what kind of bears live on Noth Pole. I think only White.
Am I right?
Notice that in the original question, Brad Jones said "birds are singing".
U can't find birds in the North/South pole, unless u're refering to the birds on men or the penguins. But the first is impossible. Men's birds can't sing. And penguins can't sing too. It's all rubbish!
Also, he said that "the sun is shining". On these cold continents, the sun doesn't shine. It's just there, misty and moist.
Also, regarding the house.....it can't be an Igloo.(Eskimo's house)
Igloos have no glass windows, not to mention 4 windows!
So, the color of the bear can't be white. It's brown.
Anyway, just to ensure that I score the victory :Actually, Brad.......no need to feel shy just because a kid like me got the answer right. Even experts lose to babies sometimes, u see. Too bad there's no prize, though!Code:
//create a fall-through style switch statement
switch(m_nBearColor)
{
case BROWN:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
case WHITE:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
default:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
}
Otherwise, I would be logging into my assistant site manager account by now.....aye~! :p :p :D :D :D :cool:
ThatQuote:
Originally posted by Xeon
Code:
//create a fall-through style switch statement
switch(m_nBearColor)
{
case BROWN:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
case WHITE:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
default:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
}
paints the white bear only once in brown. And that:Code:switch(m_nBearColor)
{
default:
m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
}
is even shorter, and does EXACTLY the same thing as your code :pCode:m_strFinalAnswer = "Brown";
This is the answer I sent Brad. By the way Xeon, I already mentioned in a post that birds can also be singing at the north pole, even in a nuclear reactor control room. All you need is a bird cage and on the north pole, preferably an encasing research station too. And the sun does shine on the exact north pole, even for 6 months continuously only to go down for another 6 months.
You cannot have all sides of a rectangle (= walls of the house) facing in the same direction, at least not in a planar 2D geometry. It requires a 2D geometry bent in a third dimension, such as the surface of a sphere, in casu the earths surface.Quote:
The first one can be solved easily: the house is on the exact location of the north pole. If you have a sphere and you put a point on this sphere and draw meridians originating from this sphere, all meridians will cross each other in a point diametrically against the first point on the sphere.
This means in our case that if we are located on the north pole, if we look in any direction, we are actually looking south, mathematically speaking at least. Physically, your compass will just go nuts instead of pointing south or downwards.
Anyway, since we are on the north pole, the bear is most likely a polar bear and thus white in color.
And concering the baby, who is bigger, I'm not sure. I think it has something to do with the family name, but I do not exactly how this works out in English. I think the name behind Mrs. is the husbands name. So the actual name of the baby will be Bigger, but Mrs. Bigger's real (maiden (?)) name is not Bigger. This means the baby is (a) Bigger, while Mrs. Bigger is not a Bigger, speaking in terms of blood relationships.
Speaking in terms of size, Mrs. Bigger is bigger of course. But on the radio, you cannot tell the difference from bigger and Bigger. I think they just like to be annoying and do not want to give you the prize if you say Mrs. Bigger is bigger.
In any case, the first is a pretty hard question, the second is completely nuts.
Yes, Xeon, the world is round :D , and in case you wondered, it was already known around 400 BC. by Erastothenes calculating its perimeter around 40000km, remarkably accurate. Anybody knows how you can determine that with the means available at that time? I know the answer.
I hadn't thought about that problem. But well, I studied in the UK so I guess I have an unfair advantage over other non-english people :/Quote:
Originally posted by Simon666
Please, next time, use something that non-English people can figure out to. Although I have to admit Yves M is non English.
No offence, Gabriel, but I think this works best in German. Keine Apfel (in plural, I don't have the capitalized รค on my keyboard) is a bit clearer to me.Quote:
Solution: one apple falls from the tree. On the tree there are no apples (but apple) and on the ground also are no apples (but apple).
I'll PM you the solution ;)Quote:
U have got 80 coins. U have known that 1 of them is false coin
and that this false coin weighs some less than each of other
real coins. Also U have assay balance (cup scales).
Actually, the sun is really SHINING on North Pole. Do you know that a certain time of year, there is no NIGHT (right at the Nort Pole, I mean right right right at the North North north of the earth)? That is because of the earth inclinaison, the sun just make a 360 degrees in the sky. Never go to North Pole thought.... ;)
For these birdies, that's a godd question, is there any birds in North Pole? Like Bernache or "long travelers birds" ?, maybe there is some that past by there, it is a shortcut between Canada and Russia....
For the bear, sure it is WHITE, not BROWN, right at the NORTH POLE, you are in the ocean ( or in that case on an big Iceberg) Any brown bear here would be really really lost... :)
JeffB
Well, I guess that according to some people the squeaking of penguins could actually be qualified as singing :p
I already pointed that out. On the exact Nrth pole it is even for 6 months. The more south you go, the less it becomes. Below the polar circle the effect disappears. I think this is around 68-69 degrees because the earths inclination is around 21 degrees. I'm not sure about this value. And, not there are no birds on the North pole, because there is no solid ground unlike on Antarctica. When it is frozen in autumn, winter and spring you can setup some research station or some tents on the North pole if you like. The Russians even shoot you in space against payment. :D And I think birds do not fly over the northpole, it would require them to be flying awake for too long. If you want to go from Canada to Russia and back as a bird, the Bering Street is the way to go.Quote:
Do you know that a certain time of year, there is no NIGHT.
Just a fact: last year, some crazy Belgians tried to cross the North Pole by foot. They failed. :D I do not know the plan, I think it was to walk from the most nothern Russian island to Greenland or something.
For pinguins you need to be on the South Pole Yves.
Yves: you will agree to me that there is a difference between:
- there are no apples on the tree
- there is no apple on the tree
No penguins on the North Pole at all ? Arf, yes that's true :rolleyes:
Well, you could take your pet penguin then to the north pole ;)
Well, what can I say... In the common usage of the sentence there is no difference. But if you are a programmer, mathematician or logistician, I guess you can afford to being a bean-counter so you can say there is a difference.Quote:
Originally posted by Gabriel Fleseriu
Yves: you will agree to me that there is a difference between:
- there are no apples on the tree
- there is no apple on the tree
I mean, if Simon would have said that there are no penguins on the north pole, would you think that it could be true that there was one single penguin on the North Pole ?
The Vatican is everywhere, be suspicious, it is a conspiracy against satanists. What you think of as a penguin in the distance, could just be a nun. Watch your back. :DQuote:
I mean, if Simon would have said that there are no penguins on the north pole, would you think that it could be true that there was one single penguin on the North Pole ?
Are you implying that there are nuns on the North Pole ? ;)
To Simon666
Why didn't you send me an answer if you thought it was so easy? I thought the point of this thread was to have a little fun. There's no reason to get insulting.
Guys,
we are not going to start a flame war, are we?
It was not intended to be insulting. It was to point you to the fact that the letter "e" is the most frequent used in English is not well known, to the fact that I think it is only exceptional when it uses all letters except one, and to the fact that it is relatively easy to make up a paragraph of a certain length without the letter "e". I added in some elements to prove that I wrote it, which may come over insulting. That is because the list of available words is rather small to express myself in.
Again, I did not say it is easy to figure it out, I think I would not have found it. I just said such a number of lines is easy to come up with and thus not exceptional. The reason why I didn't answer it is because I didn't though it was a riddle, there is nothing to reason over, only something to notice. I thought it was just another one of those absurd things as Brad's two coins and Gabriels two apples. I really couldn't figure those two out although I gave them much attention. Must be a difference between brain structure, I'm more mathematically thinking and you guys probably more linguistic. Did you solve dimm_coder riddle quickly, speaking of math?
I solved it ;)
That is an important thing to keep in mind. With nothing bad intended a sentence can actually sound insulting to somebody of a different culture, background or better command of the language.Quote:
That is because the list of available words is rather small to express myself in.
OK, step by step translation:Quote:
That is an important thing to keep in mind. With nothing bad intended a sentence can actually sound insulting to somebody of a different culture, background or better command of the language.
[IRONY]
Meaning, look, it's funny, I can make such a thing too.
Now common? How good for you. You must carry humongous satisfaction for your own thinking. I think a normal man could not do such a thing without having any kind of abnormal braincapacity.
You do not have to be an engineer (although I am one :D ) to invent a paragraph of your own containing no "e"s.
I think you own such a capacity, so congratulations to you for having such an almost miraculous ability. Having a smart man as you around is an uncommon and unsual thing, I can truly admit that.
Ironically saying again you do actually not need to be smart or anything to write such a piece of text. First part may be insulting, since it is directed to "you". But I only can choose between "I" or "you" because "he", "she" and "we" are unavailable.
I'm wishing right now that in an hour or day or month, I could also do such a thing.
Ironically wishing I could do it too. Note the pun, I AM doing it in case you didn't notice. This is one of the concepts of irony.
But I think this wish will stay, for it is a profanity, nobody can tip Goodz13, God of unusual paragraphs. I am just Simon666, Satan's incarnation, I am too dumb to show proof that I can do as good.
Showing I have written this paragraph, while also referring to the 666 in my user name and the "God" like sounding of Goodz. If you take this insulting, please don't. It is just demonstrating how to play with words, referring to their implication (God-Goodz, Simon666-Satan).
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It's finally over. I was repeating the same stuff over and over anyway (not having to be smart to invent your own paragraph) due to lack of other subjects to talk on and limited vocabulary.
I hope this clears things up a bit.
By the way, Goodz13, I am thinking of this for a while. Is that your photo? Downsized and so it looks like a picture from Cuba Gooding Junior (don't laugh, there is this Zoolander guy somewhere around here). If this is not the case, can you post your picture here on in another thread?
That's me. Although I don't see the resemblence
Isn't Cuba Gooding Junior black?
Are we talking about this guy?
http://www.tribute.ca/all_actors/bios/1714.htm
Gabriel: Yes. Resemblances are: bald head, small beard, friendly smile usually. Cuba is black ofcourse, Goodz13 not sure, depends on the lighting. It is a dark room with a bright TV on the background. Got to go sleeping now. Discuss maybe further tomorrow.