<div dir="ltr"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-4212287633883104211WordSection1"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>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.<font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></i></p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>spike</i></p></font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 4:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-4212287633883104211WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Intelligence test<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">"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 seconds on this one you flunk)<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">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:<u></u><u></u></span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">>…<span style="color:black">29 days - many just blurt out 15 - none of you, certainly</span>…<span style="color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Professor, as stated, the question is indeterminant.<u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">You can't dig half a hole (setup did not say a hole half the size of the first one - can't assume that)<u></u><u></u></span></i></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill w<u></u><u></u></span></i></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>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.<u></u><u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>spike<u></u><u></u></i></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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