Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.puzzle Subject: Re: How did they do in the test Message-ID: <1432@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 14:24:48 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1432 Posted: Thu Mar 6 14:24:48 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 03:20:25 EST References: <> <6490@cca.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 14 > ] My old friend, Professor Flootersnoot at Arkham University, has three > ] prize students in his Creative Ontology class, Jones, Smith, and Wilson. > ] Recently he sent me a small puzzle about how they placed in a recent > ] exam. The puzzle consisted of three statements: > ] > ] (1) No other employee of the Adelphi bookstore placed ahead of > ] Wilson. Note that this statement does *not* imply that more than one of Flootersnoot's prize students work for the Adelphi bookstore, as asserted by whoever posted the 'solution' to this problem. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j