It certainly does. As we are often confronted with requests for solutions of problems so minimally defined as to challenge the most eminent mindreader, this excels. We have a meta-problem as the supplicant him- (or her-, I cannot even ascertain this) does not appear to know what it is. Thus me are asked to both pose and solve the problem. While this may seem trivial to the casual reader, we must recall Adams' Paradox, that we might supply an answer, but be unable to state the question. Pardon the enthusiasm - I have just solved two gratuitous problems and I was, so to speak, primed for this message. Jim On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:> On 06/10/16 20:55, abhishek pandey wrote: >> >> kindly solve my problem sir. > > > That's it, in its entirety. Shouldn't that win some sort of prize? > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > -- > Technical Editor ANZJS > Department of Statistics > University of Auckland > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Question and answer: 6*9 = (4)*13^1 + (2)*13^0 On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:> It certainly does. As we are often confronted with requests for > solutions of problems so minimally defined as to challenge the most > eminent mindreader, this excels. We have a meta-problem as the > supplicant him- (or her-, I cannot even ascertain this) does not > appear to know what it is. Thus me are asked to both pose and solve > the problem. While this may seem trivial to the casual reader, we must > recall Adams' Paradox, that we might supply an answer, but be unable > to state the question. > > Pardon the enthusiasm - I have just solved two gratuitous problems and > I was, so to speak, primed for this message. > > Jim > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> > wrote: > > On 06/10/16 20:55, abhishek pandey wrote: > >> > >> kindly solve my problem sir. > > > > > > That's it, in its entirety. Shouldn't that win some sort of prize? > > > > cheers, > > > > Rolf Turner > > > > -- > > Technical Editor ANZJS > > Department of Statistics > > University of Auckland > > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/ > posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >-- Dan Dalthorp, PhD USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis, OR 97331 ph: 541-750-0953 ddalthorp at usgs.gov [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
No, I'm quite certain that the answer is: 7*6 = 3*2^4 - 36/6 but I don't know the question Jim On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov> wrote:> Question and answer: > > 6*9 = (4)*13^1 + (2)*13^0 > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It certainly does. As we are often confronted with requests for >> solutions of problems so minimally defined as to challenge the most >> eminent mindreader, this excels. We have a meta-problem as the >> supplicant him- (or her-, I cannot even ascertain this) does not >> appear to know what it is. Thus me are asked to both pose and solve >> the problem. While this may seem trivial to the casual reader, we must >> recall Adams' Paradox, that we might supply an answer, but be unable >> to state the question. >> >> Pardon the enthusiasm - I have just solved two gratuitous problems and >> I was, so to speak, primed for this message. >> >> Jim >> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> >> wrote: >> > On 06/10/16 20:55, abhishek pandey wrote: >> >> >> >> kindly solve my problem sir. >> > >> > >> > That's it, in its entirety. Shouldn't that win some sort of prize? >> > >> > cheers, >> > >> > Rolf Turner >> > >> > -- >> > Technical Editor ANZJS >> > Department of Statistics >> > University of Auckland >> > Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 >> > >> > >> > ______________________________________________ >> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> > PLEASE do read the posting guide >> > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > > > -- > Dan Dalthorp, PhD > USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center > Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 > 3200 SW Jefferson Way > Corvallis, OR 97331 > ph: 541-750-0953 > ddalthorp at usgs.gov >
The OP sent a separate email which was slightly less obscure. Taken together with this email, they suggest more a lack of familiarity with the concept of an email thread and with the time scale and features of email support, rather than a presumption of mind reading skills. One can hope that careful reading of the Posting Guide and referenced materials by the OP will correct this deficiency. I will admit to considering a fortune nomination at first reading though. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On October 6, 2016 3:26:22 PM PDT, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:>It certainly does. As we are often confronted with requests for >solutions of problems so minimally defined as to challenge the most >eminent mindreader, this excels. We have a meta-problem as the >supplicant him- (or her-, I cannot even ascertain this) does not >appear to know what it is. Thus me are asked to both pose and solve >the problem. While this may seem trivial to the casual reader, we must >recall Adams' Paradox, that we might supply an answer, but be unable >to state the question. > >Pardon the enthusiasm - I have just solved two gratuitous problems and >I was, so to speak, primed for this message. > >Jim > >On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> >wrote: >> On 06/10/16 20:55, abhishek pandey wrote: >>> >>> kindly solve my problem sir. >> >> >> That's it, in its entirety. Shouldn't that win some sort of prize? >> >> cheers, >> >> Rolf Turner >> >> -- >> Technical Editor ANZJS >> Department of Statistics >> University of Auckland >> Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276 >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> On Oct 6, 2016, at 4:22 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > The OP sent a separate email which was slightly less obscure. Taken together with this email, they suggest more a lack of familiarity with the concept of an email thread and with the time scale and features of email support, rather than a presumption of mind reading skills. One can hope that careful reading of the Posting Guide and referenced materials by the OP will correct this deficiency. > > I will admit to considering a fortune nomination at first reading though.Sigh. As a moderator of "non-subscriber postings", I initially rejected a posting from this email address 2 days ago with advice to read the Posting Guide and re-post with a more complete request and to avoid using HTML. So far, I have not seen a responsive effort to respond to that advice. The advice we moderators follow is to use a very liberal filter for what should be posted, but this poster does seem to be a challenge to that interpretation. Perhaps we should be referring some of these poorly documented postings to StackOverflow at the moderations event? What say you, members of the esteemed audience? -- David Winsemius> -- > Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. > > On October 6, 2016 3:26:22 PM PDT, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote: >> It certainly does. As we are often confronted with requests for >> solutions of problems so minimally defined as to challenge the most >> eminent mindreader, this excels. We have a meta-problem as the >> supplicant him- (or her-, I cannot even ascertain this) does not >> appear to know what it is. Thus me are asked to both pose and solve >> the problem. While this may seem trivial to the casual reader, we must >> recall Adams' Paradox, that we might supply an answer, but be unable >> to state the question. >> >> Pardon the enthusiasm - I have just solved two gratuitous problems and >> I was, so to speak, primed for this message. >> >> Jim >> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> >> wrote: >>> On 06/10/16 20:55, abhishek pandey wrote: >>>> >>>> kindly solve my problem sir. >>> >>> >>> That's it, in its entirety. Shouldn't that win some sort of prize? >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> Rolf Turner >>>David Winsemius Alameda, CA, USA