On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:05:29 -0600, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > Personally, I think the wiki question is too hard now and prevents > people from easily contributing good things. For example, someone ended > up giving up (for now) contributing something because they forgot to > divide by two when finding the area. > > The current question is: What is the area of the right triangle with > side lengths (24/5, 35/12, 337/60)? > > How about asking for the next prime number after 7? That seems a lot > easier and does not involve remembering geometry that you may not have > seen in a long time, computing things with lots of fractions, etc. >
And no, it was not at all embarrassing to admit this in a public forum; I just hope my calculus students will not get a hold of this. Even better was that when I saw that my commit was rejected, my first thought was that the sides were listed in the funny way (with the hypotenuse being one of the first two). So I opened sage and did RR(24/5), etc. Then I realized what had gone wrong. Back on topic, I like Jason's idea. I would ask for the next prime number after 8, just so we get the right answer even if someone interprets "after" as ">=". Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne -- Australia -- http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~aghitza/ -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
