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A Few Easy Ones from Raymond Smullyan (raganwald.com)
10 points by bdfh42 on May 16, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



If my boss saw me on Hacker News for 3 hours trying to solve this puzzle and said, "I forgot to take my Xanax this morning, I never lie, and all the other programmers are working hard, therefore you're fired," would that make him insane?


You need a new boss ;-)


One of Raymond Smullyan's best contriubtions is his allegory "Planet Without Laughter"

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/smullyan.html

I like things that encourage people to expand and/or examine their world views.




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