February 23, 2007 09:23 PM

The Logical Puzzle

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SQL Server Magazine
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February's Puzzle: Getting Out of a Cave
While hiking a mountain, you enter a cave. Suddenly, rocks fall and block the cave's entrance. You turn on your flashlight and start walking deeper into the cave. After a while, you find another opening. Unfortunately, however, the opening gives way to a sheer rock wall 60 feet above a hikeable surface. You figure that 10 feet is the most distance you could jump down without sustaining serious injuries (also taking your ...

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Let me get this straight. You have already climbed twenty feet up a rope, no mean feat unless you are used to doing that sort of thing for a living, you are then expected to hold on with one hand which would be pretty difficult for most people to do for more than a few seconds. You then have to first cut through the hanging rope and then tie a knot in the remainder WITH ONE HAND! Not only this but you then have to repeat the feat climbing 30feet up the second rope, cutting it and tying another ONE HANDED knot that won't give way. This is a good example of a solution that works on paper but that would not work in the real world, not for the majority of people in any case.

appsupport3/12/2007 8:11:43 AM


Is zero an odd number?

[Itzik: No]

JAMES3/3/2007 1:59:19 PM


Place 1 can in the first bag
Place that bag inside the second bag and put two additional cans into the second bag
Place the rest of the cans into the third bag

First bag = 1 can
Second bag = 3 cans
Third bag = 5 cans

[Itzik: Right you are :-)]

Dennis3/1/2007 12:24:56 PM


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