Please improve these comprehensions (was meaning of [ ])
Marko Rauhamaa
marko at pacujo.net
Thu Sep 7 03:59:38 EDT 2017
Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>:
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:37:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net>
> declaimed the following:
>
>>
>>Which reminds me of this puzzle I saw a couple of days ago:
>>
>> 1 + 4 = 5
>> 2 + 5 = 12
>> 3 + 6 = 21
>> 8 + 11 = ?
>>
>>A mathematician immediately comes up with a "wrong" answer.
>>
>
> I'm coming up with "96", on the basis that the "+" is a
> placeholder for a non-standard operation
That's a mathematician's "wrong" answer. Stefan Ram's answer is the
intended one.
Marko
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