Re: AR link (was Volunteers needed/found)


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 03, 2009 at 22:17:36 user PeterC.

In Reply to: AR link (was Volunteers needed/found) posted by Jock on February 03, 2009 at 21:51:02:

Adam commented that if his life had depended on it he would have argued that it was a trick question. But of the 14/17 who only supplied one answer, though many shared their reasoning, only one person admitted to having any doubts.

That's not very surprising; it all depends on your approach to doing things.

For most of my working life, I produced TV documentary programmes, Panoramas, Horizons, stuff like that. I was always very aware of the infinite shades of grey in 'real life' (whatever that might be) but every bit as much aware that if I didn't square things off a bit, I'd never reach any kind of conclusion and I'd never do anything effective.

So when you put your question, the number of vertices jumped out at me within seconds; I checked it once and then jammed it down. And yes, there were other progressions, but it was so obvious that I chose that one. And nobody would die if I kept the choices down.

But of course; the reduction to the binary is so common and so often just plain stupid that it often drives me to contempt and some kind of despair. Human beings can be so petty. Trouble is, for those petty reasons they often kill people.


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