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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: [meta] how to attack a problem
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"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:
> "Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message 
> news:1bvbdwwtmt.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net...
>> luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>            [snip...]                     [snip...] 
>>> [snip...]
>>>
>>> The seeds of the answer are embedded in the question.
>>
>> Sometimes.  If you're lucky.  Certainly not universally...
>>
>
> To correctly formulate a question *implies* that there is an answer. 
> There's a seed for you!

"What is the smallest odd prime number greater than 2?"

"What is the smallest even prime number greater than 2?"

Is the first questions correctly formulated, and the second incorrectly
formulated?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
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