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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Intelligence test<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;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)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;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:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;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'><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Professor, as stated, the question is indeterminant.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;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)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'>bill w<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>spike<o:p></o:p></i></p></div></div></div></body></html>