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From: Michael Heiming on 25 Sep 2005 15:25 In comp.os.linux.setup Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es>: > Michael Heiming <michael+USENET(a)www.heiming.de> wrote: >> In comp.os.linux.setup Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio(a)online.no>: >>> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:40:42 +0200, Peter T. Breuer <ptb(a)oboe.it.uc3m.es> >>> wrote: >>>> Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio(a)online.no> wrote: >> [..] >>> Before that, I saw the post with Euler's phi, but then I thought >>> it a bit irrelevant because it was too sophisticated. I could >> Well, but then you don't know Peter, that was exactly the reason >> for pointing it out. ;-) > No - I wouldn't make the answer _complex_. It requires intellience to > find simplicity, and none to find complexity! Sure, you mentioned the ";-)"? At least got you with this one. ;-) -- Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94) mail: echo zvpunry(a)urvzvat.qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' #bofh excuse 364: Sand fleas eating the Internet cables
From: Charlie Gibbs on 25 Sep 2005 15:59 In article <11jbe7qhs7v5m4b(a)corp.supernews.com>, jdbeyer(a)exit109.com (Jean-David Beyer) writes: > I liked the puzzel like this where a bunch of small integers were > given, and they seemed to have a pattern, but unless you were a > resident of Manhattan Island, you would not recognize they were > the stops of the 8th Avenue Subway. I like the alternate answer to this one: Q: What are the next letters in this sequence: O T T F F S ... A: It's Buckwheat singing "The Star-Spangled Banner": "O tay tan foo fee, sy ga bawn's merly wight..." -- /~\ cgibbs(a)kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
From: Jean-David Beyer on 25 Sep 2005 21:07 Peter T. Breuer wrote: > Enrique Perez-Terron <enrio(a)online.no> wrote: > >>Actually the original idea when I started "analyzing" the problem >>in the post was that I felt I was blocking myself from seeing the >>obvious, and I have sometimes managed to force myself over that >>barrier by looking hard at the search space definition. I started > > > Yes, that is good. In your first post you got close when you considered > generating one set of things from another (AFAIR) and thought about primes > or sets of number coprime to an existing set. I had trouble avoiding > pointing you either towards or away from that line of thought. > > Michael also was close in that for some amazing reason he chose to > consider euler's phi (which I did not remember at all) but did not > notice that the peaks in the phi function WERE the sequence given. > > >>writing with the conviction I was not going to post it, but since >>I did not find out much I thought perhpas it could spark off >>something in one of the others. It did, but in myself. > > > Well done. > > I think that trying to think of an irregular monotonic rising series > was a good way to go. I had already said that no algebraic expression > would give the sequence (but that a computation was possible). Looking > at the number of members of the sequence in each integer range might > have shown a log/n behaviour too. > > > Peter I never thought to ask you: do you teach there? I had the idea you mostly did sysadmin, but I infer you do (or could do) more... . -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 21:05:00 up 102 days, 15:03, 3 users, load average: 4.34, 4.28, 4.12
From: Jean-David Beyer on 25 Sep 2005 21:10 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > In article <11jbe7qhs7v5m4b(a)corp.supernews.com>, jdbeyer(a)exit109.com > (Jean-David Beyer) writes: > > >>I liked the puzzel like this where a bunch of small integers were >>given, and they seemed to have a pattern, but unless you were a >>resident of Manhattan Island, you would not recognize they were >>the stops of the 8th Avenue Subway. > > > I like the alternate answer to this one: > > Q: What are the next letters in this sequence: O T T F F S ... I know the traditional answer to this: O T T F F S S E N T. But do you know the next 10? E T T F F S S E N T and the next 80? T ... T ... F ... F ... S ... S ... E ... N ... > > A: It's Buckwheat singing "The Star-Spangled Banner": > "O tay tan foo fee, sy ga bawn's merly wight..." > -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 21:05:00 up 102 days, 15:03, 3 users, load average: 4.34, 4.28, 4.12
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 25 Sep 2005 22:34
"Jean-David Beyer" <jdbeyer(a)exit109.com> wrote in message news:11jeidp75d6f334(a)corp.supernews.com... > I never thought to ask you: do you teach there? I had the idea you mostly > did sysadmin, but I infer you do (or could do) more... . The only way Peter teaches if he has tenure from 20 year old work and no longer actually teaches classes. Professional teachers do *not* snark at the newbies who have come to actually learn. |