Thursday, September 1st, 2005, 3:49 pm
Lateral Thinking – A Riddle
Filed under: Here is a little riddle. Can you spot the special meaning of the number below? (hint)
I think the above can be considered a case of lateral thinking, which is one way of educating CS students and sharpening up their programming/testing skills. As strange as it may seem, I spent hours with tutors solving problems like the classic below:
A hunter aimed his gun carefully, and pulled the trigger. Seconds later he realised his mistake. Minutes later he was dead. What happened?
Clues: No living creature killed him. It was a cold winter’s day. He had a VERY loud gun…
Solution: The hunter was near a snowy cliff. When he fired the gun, he “triggered” an avalanche which buried him…
Hint: Try to see which English word the numbers form.
