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wu :: forums    riddles    easy (Moderators: william wu, towr, Grimbal, Icarus, ThudnBlunder, SMQ, Eigenray)    What happens inside the black box « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: What happens inside the black box  (Read 638 times) fiziwig Junior Member     Posts: 78 What happens inside the black box   « on: Jan 10th, 2007, 3:05pm » Quote Modify You put a number into the black box and another number comes out. Here are some samples:   ... 10 -> 36 11 -> 19 12 -> 48 13 -> 25 14 -> 28 15 -> 15 16 -> 256 17 -> 129 18 -> 132 19 -> 67 20 -> 144 21 -> 73 ...   What is happening inside the black box? IP Logged balakrishnan Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 92 Re: What happens inside the black box   « Reply #1 on: Jan 10th, 2007, 3:20pm » Quote Modify http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A084471 IP Logged fiziwig Junior Member     Posts: 78 Re: What happens inside the black box   « Reply #2 on: Jan 10th, 2007, 8:57pm » Quote Modify I thought I made that one up. Hmmmph!   I see a time when answers to every puzzle and riddle can be looked up on the Internet and nobody will have to have any brains to solve them. From that day on riddles will no longer be any fun at all. IP Logged Sir Col Uberpuzzler impudens simia et macrologus profundus fabulae     Gender: Posts: 1825 Re: What happens inside the black box   « Reply #3 on: Jan 10th, 2007, 11:54pm » Quote Modify This raises some very interesting questions about what it means to "solve" a puzzle.   On a naïve level there are two types of people: those that solve the puzzle using their native wit and those that "google" the solution. But it is not as simple as that...   Because of the internet the way in which we learn has changed. In particular, through places like this forum we have been exposed to puzzles that we would never have seen anywhere before. Many of those puzzles touch on areas in which we have had no previous experience. I confess on a number of occasions needing to do "research" to get started on a puzzle, simply because I have either forgotten or never learned the concepts before.   However, I believe that it is the way in which we use the internet that marks the difference between those two types: there are those that will use the internet to research the topic and learn the concepts that enable them to get started and eventually solve the puzzle, and there are those that will google the entire solution and will, in some mixed up way, believe that they have "solved" the puzzle. « Last Edit: Jan 11th, 2007, 2:23pm by Sir Col » IP Logged mathschallenge.net / projecteuler.net Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------=> easy   - medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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