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Sept 14, 2004 17:32:16 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 14, 2004 17:32:16 GMT -5
Dang nab it now! I was enjoying that sweet victory of no's I was giving out! But you are right............now for another riddle............
Let us go into heroic fantasy land. The story takes place in a antic land where dwarves are mining to extract gold. The king is visiting the mine when he ears voices around the corner: "I have a neat trick: we have to melt gold bars the size of this mold, that is exactly 100 grams. I remove just a tiny fraction to all my bars and they all weight 99 grams. Their scales are not precise enough, they don't see anything..." The king tries to run after then, but they ear him and manage to flee among the corridors. Annoyed, the king summons the gods, who grant him a gift from the future: a digital scale. The digital scales works as follows: you put whatever you want on the scale, (nothing happens then), you press a button and the exact weight of what is on the scale appears. Then, the scale vanishes. Note that before you have pressed the button, no weight appears and once you have pressed the button the weight won't change even if you add or remove things. Armed with this mighty scale, the king summons all his 100 workers. How will he find the cheater?
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Sept 14, 2004 17:45:08 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 14, 2004 17:45:08 GMT -5
Err.... he weighs one, and then compares it to the rest of the gold bars using a balance scale.
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Sept 14, 2004 17:46:07 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 14, 2004 17:46:07 GMT -5
oh come now, you got to put more thought into it than that..........
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Sept 14, 2004 23:37:25 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 14, 2004 23:37:25 GMT -5
Damn... after three hours of thermodynamics homework followed by a round of probability, my brain just shut down....
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give me a hint - does it involve using a traditional answer like mathematics, or is it a more out-of-the-box kind of thing?
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Sept 15, 2004 16:27:29 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 15, 2004 16:27:29 GMT -5
I guess you could say it's a more traditional answer..........but then again I could be misleading you.................
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Sept 20, 2004 10:39:28 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 20, 2004 10:39:28 GMT -5
too complicated and you can't figure it out?
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Sept 22, 2004 9:14:08 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 22, 2004 9:14:08 GMT -5
Beats me.
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Sept 22, 2004 13:32:38 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 22, 2004 13:32:38 GMT -5
You should simply ask the first dwarf to put one bar on the scale, the second dwarf, two bars, the third three and so on. The missing number of grams will show the cheater. Note that you could catch several cheaters by asking the n-th dwarf to put 2^n bars...
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Sept 24, 2004 15:17:18 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 24, 2004 15:17:18 GMT -5
Ahhhhh. Not bad
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Sept 24, 2004 15:41:58 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 24, 2004 15:41:58 GMT -5
TEEHEE.................at least I found one you couldn't solve.........now your turn.............and be gentle please?
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Sept 24, 2004 17:59:02 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 24, 2004 17:59:02 GMT -5
A man comes up to you and says "Everything I tell you is a lie".
Is he lying or not?
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Sept 24, 2004 19:01:09 GMT -5
Post by RowanMoonWynd on Sept 24, 2004 19:01:09 GMT -5
Lying!
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Sept 25, 2004 8:34:30 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 25, 2004 8:34:30 GMT -5
Why?
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Sept 25, 2004 20:59:28 GMT -5
Post by LadyWinterWolf on Sept 25, 2004 20:59:28 GMT -5
Wrong, he's telling the truth. If all he does is lie, and he tells you he is lying, then he is telling you the truth.
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Sept 26, 2004 1:01:44 GMT -5
Post by EK - Shadow of Death on Sept 26, 2004 1:01:44 GMT -5
Not quite. If all he does is lie, then wouldn't he lie about lying?
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