you are slooooooow sometimes danny boy, but im done... go on amazon and run a search for Godel Escher and Bach; an Eternal Golden Braid... perhaps this may help PEACE Commisso
oh, finally. i got it. there was a solution, and freakin EXPLANATION. i'll take whatever abuse you wanna hurl at me for not getting it. that's fine. the thing that gets up my nose is that i thought you guys were trying to say there was NO explanation. i wasn't even entertaining the thought that the riddle could be explained. for that commisso, i have to call you FULL OF SHIT. (and lobster, you might wanna learn the fine art of clear communciation) it wasn't "fuzzy" at all. it's pure logic. you just dont' know what the fuck you are talking about. i hope there is some other dickhead that doesn't get this riddle so that _I_ can explain it, and watch, i gurantee he'll understand my EXPLANATION from the get-go. let me remind you, too, that in that island example you gave, you said "THE ONE" with the dot. can you see how that is misleading? if you said that ANYONE with a dot must die, it would have been clear. let me let you in on a little secret. good communicators assume that the meaning of a communication is determined by the response it illicts. that way, they are always looking at THEMSELVES for ways to improve their message. a lesson we could all use. in your twisted version of the world, you'd expect someone to understand the fine points of molecular biology by reading them a few storeis about mice and frogs. realise dude that you can't so simply relegate all understanding to "right brain" thinking, as emotionally satisfying that might be to you. thanks for wasting my time.
commisso, you are right to laugh. i am a little surprised, though, that you needed to make that post, given that my explanation above was posted 17 minutes before yours.
ok, it's my turn... This one was a question asked during one of Microsoft job interview : There are 4 rooms. doors closed. Each room has one light bulb. Outside, there is a switch that control the light in one of the rooms. You turn the switch on, and turn it off. How do you know in which room the light was turned on? Cheers!!
correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it as simple as: on the first day, all the monks will try to count 10 monks with dots. if they can only count 9, they will kill themselves. it shouldn't even take 10 days. but then again, this assumes they all have the dots right away.