On May 12, 10:16=A0am, Palindrome wrote:
> The Todal wrote:
> > "Alasdair" wrote in message
> >news:s20g241s5ec7c900aeeqaj9ik3lndndibh@4ax.com...
> >> On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:28:47 -0700 (PDT), George
> >> wrote:
>
> >>> "I am a 3d shape. I have one flat face. I have one curved face which
> >>> meets at a vertex. What am I?"
>
> >>> My 8 year old son's homework. =A0Oh dear - I can't see how a flat face=
> >>> can meet a curved face at a vertex. All the rest are quite easy, or is=
> >>> it just me?
>
> >>> Help, George.
> >> A cone?
>
> >http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/54681.html
>
> > "Dear Dr Math
> > Our 4th grade math textbook defines a cone as "A solid figure with
> > one circular face and one vertex." =A0This sounds reasonable until you
> > read the textbook's definitions for face, edge, and vertex. The
> > textbook defines a face as "A flat surface of a solid." =A0It defines an=
> > edge as "A line segment where two faces of a solid meet." It defines a
> > vertex as "A point where two or more edges meet."
>
> > Assuming that these definitions are accurate and that I'm not
> > misinterpreting them, a cone must not have a vertex. If a cone has
> > only one face, then it can't possibly have an edge. Therefore, if it
> > doesn't have an edge, it can't have a vertex. =A0"
>
> The secret of success at examinations has always been to give the answer
> that the examiner would have given, in your place.
>
> I well remember a *university* first year question which gave a choice
> of two, and only two, answers to the question of "Which is the better
> source of energy?", (a) nuclear power stations or (b) coal fired power
> stations.
>
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To which the correct answer is "define "better"".
Is it "better" for the country that our un-elected PM has a fatal
heart attack? Undoubtedly.
Is it "better" for the family he leaves behind? Undoubtedly not.
"Better" is such a pejorative word. |