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There's the crux, isn't it? So, the puzzle is less "can you find a solution" and more "can you find the solution I intended" It's like...

Every time I see @Andy Resnick's name, I think "is that the highly-acclaimed sci-fi novelist? No, I'm thinking of Nebula Award winner...

The puzzle works better presented visually, like this: Can you arrange six matchsticks to form exactly four equilateral triangles? The...

IMO, it is ambiguous. I wouldn't interpret it that way. I would interpret it as "exactly three" rather than 2 or 4, etc. and there could...

I agree with this. The era and context provided additional ... context, of which we are bereft. As I mentioned, these puzzle now show...

I interpreted it to mean three triangles, no more, no less. (Ruling out solutions that produce four triangles.) I might even extend it...

The problem is that no one knows how fast technology in a certain area will develop. Extrapolating from the past is not possible...

The Moonshot was an anomaly, driven by Cold War testosterone.

But the women. Their uteruses. Falling out everywhere. 😲

So, by, say, 2126? That is a long time. Where were we in 1926? Oh yeah.

Right. If we were to take it to its extreme. But the problem itself implies that 3 matchstick touching end-to-end counts as a valid...

I have demonstrated that it is. What is "exactly three equilateral triangles"? Even that requires lot of assumptions. You made them...

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That's my point. Ambiguity leads to subjective intepretation. Yup. That's an interpretation. Yup. So is that. Yes. Which would still...

Who is "us"? Why is it consuming anyone's time, except for fun? "Fine-tuned" suggests it was tuned deliberately. Is this part of what...