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Jim Lemon drjimlemon at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 00:54:15 CEST 2016


No, I'm quite certain that the answer is:

7*6 = 3*2^4 - 36/6

but I don't know the question

Jim

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov> wrote:
> Question and answer:
>
> 6*9 = (4)*13^1 + (2)*13^0
>
> On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It certainly does. As we are often confronted with requests for
>> solutions of problems so minimally defined as to challenge the most
>> eminent mindreader, this excels. We have a meta-problem as the
>> supplicant him- (or her-, I cannot even ascertain this) does not
>> appear to know what it is. Thus me are asked to both pose and solve
>> the problem. While this may seem trivial to the casual reader, we must
>> recall Adams' Paradox, that we might supply an answer, but be unable
>> to state the question.
>>
>> Pardon the enthusiasm - I have just solved two gratuitous problems and
>> I was, so to speak, primed for this message.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz>
>> wrote:
>> > On 06/10/16 20:55, abhishek pandey wrote:
>> >>
>> >> kindly solve my problem sir.
>> >
>> >
>> > That's it, in its entirety.  Shouldn't that win some sort of prize?
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> >
>> > Rolf Turner
>> >
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