From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Sun Apr 28 2002 - 10:21:17 MDT
It appears as if <hal@finney.org> wrote:
|http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/putnam/putn00.html,
|the year 2000 Putman exam, with answers. See if you can find even
|a single one of these questions that could plausibly be answered by a
|substantial fraction of a junior high school class, armed with augmented
|reality internet access and fancy math software, even if they'd used
|these enhancements since they were babies.
Right. Neither does sight and hearing. Mere tools. Not necessary.
But <earty curse #1> handy. Ask any blind, deaf, or handless person.
So I gather that extra senses for gathering information will also make
a major difference. An exercise for the interested. Any takers?
OTOH: What character set did the authors imply?
The A4 question look pretty confusing to me in ISO-8859-1 character set...
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