From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Fibonacci Numbers?
Date: 20 Sep 1994 19:57:26 -0500
Date: 1994-09-20T19:57:26-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35o0dm$32o@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35n2ec$5ng@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <35n2ec$5ng@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Keith, I can't believe you would make such a mistake, 34 indeed, doesn't
>everyone know that THE ANSWER is 42.
>
(Raising hand, waving frantically) I do! I do! :-)
>By the way, I have a suggestion. When people
>ask a truly elementary question, defined as one which
>we can pretty much assume that all the readers of the newsgroup know the
>answer to, then it's probably better to EMAIL responses, we have now had
>half a dozen posts giving the formula for Fibonacci numbers, which is not
>very enlightening.
>
Better still, it amazes me that nobody said, "Um, was this problem
assigned for a programming project?" It just seemed so damn basic to
me. Of course, Rob E.'s clever algorithm was interesting (yeah,
yeah, I'm sure it can be found in any NM cookbook :-)
>Now if someone knows the question to which 42 is the answer, that would
>be really interesting and worth posting, though probably not to this
>newsgroup.
>
Yup...maybe I should set Followup To to "alt.fan.douglas-adams" :-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-09-21 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-17 20:54 Fibonacci Numbers? S. Hegede
1994-09-18 5:17 ` Weiqi Gao
1994-09-19 14:16 ` Robert I. Eachus
1994-09-20 2:47 ` Philip Brashear
1994-09-19 11:57 ` Robert Firth
1994-09-20 2:15 ` Keith Thompson @pulsar
1994-09-20 16:25 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-21 0:57 ` David Weller [this message]
1994-09-23 16:33 ` Joseph Skinner
1994-09-23 20:55 ` Jeffrey J. Hallman
1994-09-20 6:36 ` pk
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