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Re: Silicon Sea No 87 problem
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2003 Sep 6, 11:15 +0100
From: George Huxtable
Date: 2003 Sep 6, 11:15 +0100
Peter Fogg has asked, with some justification in my view, for clarification about the wording of a Silicon Sea exercise, set by Dan Hogan on 9th June, with should perhaps have been numbered 87, though it was at the time numbered 78. He sent a message to the list on 22 August with the subject "SS: Leg 87 questions", which in response to one question stated "Here I'm lost", and ended "Is there a problem here? Or am I not understanding something?" Rather to my surprise, there seems to have been no response to this plea from anyone on the Silicon Sea team. More recently, on 5 Sept, in the thread "Principles and being practical" he said- >Some weeks ago I posted my go at one >current Silicon Sea exercise and then details of a problem I was having with >the one before, and I have yet to hear a peep from any expert. Perhaps that valid point got lost because it was submerged in a diatribe about other matters. And yet up to now there's been no response to his plea, about a problem which puzzles me too, when I look at its wording. So I wish to add my voice to his, and ask for a bit of further explanation (or perhaps reconsideration) about that problem and the way it was posed. George. ================================================================ contact George Huxtable by email at george@huxtable.u-net.com, by phone at 01865 820222 (from outside UK, +44 1865 820222), or by mail at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK. ================================================================