Re: logic question

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From: Michael
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 09:51

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WARREN GREENWALD wrote:
> An instructor teaches a class five days a week, Monday through Friday. He
> tells
> his class that he will give one more quiz on one day during the final week
> of classes, but that the students will not know for sure the quiz will be
> that day
> until they come to the classroom. What is the last day of the week he can
> give
> the quiz to satisify these conditions?

There is no solution for that thing..
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SurpriseExaminationParadox.html

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