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From: alan@pdn.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Beyond Mr.P & Mr.S.
Message-ID: <1313@pdn.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Sep-87 16:14:54 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 12 16:14:54 1987
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In article <1238@pdn.UUCP> colin@pdn.UUCP (Colin Kendall) writes:
/In the original story, the reference made by the mother
/to the respective ages of her daughters is:

/	"mother:   OK, you're right, I made it tough on you, but I have to go
/	now and drive my oldest daughter to her piano lesson."

/If the ages of the daughters are 1, 2, and 10, she has an oldest
/daughter. The various solvers seem to have made the 
/assumption that the other two daughters are the same age.

/> I don't know what this has to do with AI.  It's a test of real
/> intelligence.  Who else solved it without a scrathpad?

/I did, by refraining from making an unwarranted assumption.

Hi Colin.

Are you saying the answer is 1, 2 and 10 because that means there is an
oldest daughter?  Then why not pick 13, 0, 0 or 7, 4, 2 (or whatever)?

Or did you mean that the reasoning of the other "solvers" is faulty
because there could be two daughters, both age "six", one ten months
"older" than the other?

--alan@pdn