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  Re: Another little puzzle Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-12-14 12:30 +0000
    Re: Another little puzzle Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-12-15 04:49 -0800
    Re: Another little puzzle Kristjan Robam <he12091983@gmail.com> - 2022-12-24 12:17 -0800

#16072 — Re: Another little puzzle

On 14/12/2022 12:24 pm, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Given n times of the 24-hour day, print their average.
> 
>    For example, the average of "eight o'clock" and
>    "ten o'clock" (n=2) would be "nine o'clock".
> 
>    (You can choose any representation, for example "HH:MM"
>    or "seconds since midnight".)

Subject line: "Another little puzzle"

Your specification seems too simple to qualify as a puzzle, so 
what am I missing?

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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#16090

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:

> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
>
>> On 14/12/2022 12:24 pm, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>
>>> Given n times of the 24-hour day, print their average.
>>> For example, the average of "eight o'clock" and
>>> "ten o'clock" (n=2) would be "nine o'clock".
>>> (You can choose any representation, for example "HH:MM"
>>> or "seconds since midnight".)
>>
>> Subject line:  "Another little puzzle"
>> Your specification seems too simple to qualify as a puzzle, so
>> what am I missing?
>
>   Answering this is part of the puzzle!

Without any further constraints this problem is
absurdly easy.

If you let the reader choose the constraints, there
appears to be no reason to choose any constraints
that make the problem harder.  On the contrary,
imposing additional constraints seems artificial.

So please let us know what additional constraints
you have in mind.  I daresay mind reading is not in
the skill set of anyone reading these postings.

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#16137

Has any of you guys tried to make a universal puzzle solver ?





On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 2:30:11 PM UTC+2, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 14/12/2022 12:24 pm, Stefan Ram wrote: 
> > Given n times of the 24-hour day, print their average. 
> > 
> > For example, the average of "eight o'clock" and 
> > "ten o'clock" (n=2) would be "nine o'clock". 
> > 
> > (You can choose any representation, for example "HH:MM" 
> > or "seconds since midnight".) 
> 
> Subject line: "Another little puzzle" 
> 
> Your specification seems too simple to qualify as a puzzle, so 
> what am I missing? 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Heathfield 
> Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk 
> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999 
> Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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