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From: msb@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: A "logic puzzle"
Message-ID: <1783@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 16:59:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 16:59:34 1986
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Summary: 

> "The sum of their ages is thirteen, the product of their ages
> is as old as you are.  The oldest weighs 61 pounds."

Of course the intention here is that when you see "the oldest",
you're supposed to deduce that the two oldest ones have ages that
are a different number of years.  This is silly.  Even among twins
one is older than the other; and the person could have non-twin
sons born *almost* a year apart but whose age in years is the same
at the moment.

This is a silly verbal trick and nobody should pose problems that
depend on it.

Mark Brader