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From: laura@utcsstat.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: Why is it 2/3?????
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Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 17:07:34 EDT
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"contemplating quietly" may do no good at all. I understand *now*
where my error was. I wrote a program to simulate the process immediately
after sending my incorrect answer to rabbit!ark, to see if I were
right. I knew then that I wasn't but i could *not* see what the bugs
in my thinking were. When the explanations came in I could not understand
how they contradicted my thinking either, at first.

Perhaps all of this discussion should have gone on in mail. The best
explanation I received was from metheus!howard, at least in terms of
identifying what my problem was, but from the amount of mail I received
that went "I don't get it either, but I don't have the guts to admit it,
so if you find out will you let me know" I think that there is more  
interest in this question out there.

Do you solve all your thinking problems in isolation? Have you never
asked someone else to help you discover why a program of yours was
no longer working? Why is this problem any different?

because you are sick of it, perhaps? why don't you then use your
'n' key?

Laura Creighton
utzoo!utcsstat!laura