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Famous logical puzzles
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" 2 doors and 2 guards. One of the guards always tells the truth and the other always lies etc"
This is a famous logical puzzle; what other well-known puzzles are there?
Famous logical puzzles
Icy North Posted Oct 5, 2015
"Does there exist an algorithm for deciding whether or not a specific mathematical assertion does or does not have a proof?"
Famous logical puzzles
Icy North Posted Oct 5, 2015
Do you found paradoxes? Zeno devised a few famous ones:
Achilles and the tortoise paradox: A fleet-of-foot Achilles is unable to catch a plodding tortoise which has been given a head start, since during the time it takes Achilles to catch up to a given position, the tortoise has moved forward some distance. But this is obviously fallacious since Achilles will clearly pass the tortoise!
Famous logical puzzles
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 5, 2015
Other famous puzzles include the man going bear-hunting, the wine water mixture and the three hats.
Pardoxes include the Monty Hall paradox and the two envelopes one containing twice the cash in the other.
Famous logical puzzles
Icy North Posted Oct 5, 2015
I'm sure you'll find a few if you browse through the h2g2 category at C63
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