On Sat 30 Apr 2011 at 17:02:26 -0000, Jordi Mas wrote: > > It is not grammatical. "Three times <what> older than his son"? > > You can be "5 years older than his son", but "three times" is not some > > quantity, it is simply incomplete. > > If you have a number X, 3 times that number is 3x.
Yes. Please write that. > It is not incomplete, depends on another variable. "depends on" is the same as "incomplete". > >The only thing it could mean, if it meant anything, is that the son is y > >years old, and the father is "3 times y" years older, making him y + 3 y = > >4 y years old. > > If he soon is represented by the variable Y, "times older than his son" > means 3Y, not 3+Y I did not write "3+Y", I wrote "Y + 3 * Y" which is "4 * Y". This is basic math. I would hope that "logic puzzles" were based on logic (in fact, "math" would be more appropriate here). Cheers, -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- There's no point being grown-up if you \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774142 Title: logic error in a logic puzzle -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
