Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com>: > On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 10:37:42 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> > declaimed the following: > >> >>Which reminds me of this puzzle I saw a couple of days ago: >> >> 1 + 4 = 5 >> 2 + 5 = 12 >> 3 + 6 = 21 >> 8 + 11 = ? >> >>A mathematician immediately comes up with a "wrong" answer. >> > > I'm coming up with "96", on the basis that the "+" is a > placeholder for a non-standard operation
That's a mathematician's "wrong" answer. Stefan Ram's answer is the intended one. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
