home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!rice!news.rice.edu!dens
- From: dens@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Dennis Allen Schmitz)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Problematic smurfs!
- Message-ID: <DENS.92Sep1002634@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 1992 06:26:34 GMT
- References: <94952@bu.edu>
- Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
- Followup-To: sci.math
- Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
- Lines: 19
- In-Reply-To: spacefox@acs.bu.edu's message of 30 Aug 1992 20:09:36 GMT
-
-
- There is a bit of commotion in the crowd, but no one stands up.
- The mayor requests the same demand a bit more sternly.
- Again, commotion, but no one stands up.
- The mayor, irate, demands the red hatted smurfs to stand up.
- Then, a certain amount of smurfs rise.
-
- During the third commotion each smurf asks his neighbor if he should stand.
-
- All the smurfs with red hats stand up.
-
- (Why not? -- smurfs have no prior knowledge of own hat color, no
- constraint in problem about finding out later.)
-
- Later,
- den
-
- (What is this, some psychology experiment to see how an audience reacts
- to unsolvable problems? <yawn>)
-