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Stanley Accrington <sta@afu.com> wrote:
: I'm reading one of the "Puzzles of Sam Loyd" books (and an excellent read
: it is too, and very cheap, see
:    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486207099/afuinc )

: One of the puzzles seems to be worded in a way that has an obvious meaning,
: and a non-obvious ambiguous meaning.   Try it here.  Post what you think.

:       We were travelling from Bixley to Pixley along the straight
:       road connecting them.   After we had been travelling for 40
:       minutes, I asked how far we had gone.  Don Pedro replied "Just
:       half as far as it is to Pixley".

: Assume they were travelling at say 6 mph, how many miles is it between
: Bixley and Pixley?   If you chose the non-obvious interpretation, why
: did you favor that over the obvious interpretation?
	
	12 miles from bixley to pixley. the abiguity is in Don Pedro's
skipping the "from" part of the distance to pixley, and to me it means
the distance they had traveled was half the distance they still had to 
travel to pixley.

: If you can't even see the non-obvious interpretation until someone
: explains it to you, join the club.   ;-(