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Article #215Re: The poor parachutist...
From: Jussi Haukioja
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:09
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:09
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In article <1992Aug18.131259.14667@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il>, jhsegal@wiscon.weizmann.ac.il (Livy) writes: > Ok..Now let's see you,logic gguys resolving this question: > Let's assume that somewhere(on other planet??) there are 2 cities:a city with > honest people ,who NEVER lie,and a city with crooks,who NEVER TELL the TRUTH. > One day per year they are going to shoping to the other city,so they are all > mixed together in both cities.On the very same crazy day,a poor parachutist > jumped exactly in one of the two cities.The guy know he is in one of those > cities,but he doesn't know in which of them.Now THE BIG QUESTION is:What > question should he ask one of the people he sees,so he could deduce in which > city he is.Remember:The man he is asking could be a liar or a honest man.HE (the > parchutist) doesn't know it. > > NOW,let's see your brains working!! > Livy. (I know the answer!!) Easy. Just ask someone: "Do you live here?". If the answer is "yes", you're in the honest city, if it's "no", you're in the liars' city. The parachutist won't know whether he's talking to a liar or not, but he'll know which city he's in. Jussi.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!polaris!sara.cc.utu.fi!jhaukioj From: jhaukioj@sara.cc.utu.fi (Jussi Haukioja) Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: The poor parachutist... Message-ID: <1992Aug19.110413.1@sara.cc.utu.fi> Date: 19 Aug 92 08:09:44 GMT References: <1992Aug18.131259.14667@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> Sender: news@polaris.utu.fi (Usenet News admin) Organization: University of Turku, Finland Lines: 20