[ExI] Intelligence test

[William Flynn Wallace]

*There is a reasonable protocol which would suggest the term hole means
something that goes thru, like the hole needed to mount a door knob.  If it
is a 10 cm in thickness, one might suppose a hole 5 cm in depth would
qualify has half a hole.*



*spike*
Ah, Spike, you've done it again.  (strictly speaking, though, no, as the
word 'dig' prevents your solution - now if you were digging to China.....)
 bill w


On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…"A pool contains a plant that doubles in size each day.  How many days
> does it take for the plant to fill the pool?"  (If you take more than three
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> >…Or - three men take three days to dig a hole - how many days does it
> take them to dig half a hole? (5 seconds max)  scroll for answers:
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> *>…29 days - many just blurt out 15 - none of you, certainly…*
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> *Professor, as stated, the question is indeterminant.*
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> *You can't dig half a hole (setup did not say a hole half the size of the
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> *Well let’s think that thru a bit.  There is a reasonable protocol which
> would suggest the term hole means something that goes thru, like the hole
> needed to mount a door knob.  If it is a 10 cm in thickness, one might
> suppose a hole 5 cm in depth would qualify has half a hole.*
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> *spike*
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