Jason Grout 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)?
It's not very hard to work out (even I can do it!) Well, I think I can - I'll
see when I try to edit the Wiki next.
But if you say it has already caused someone to give up, then perhaps it is.
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.
IMHO, that is far too trivial. Most 14 year old school child will know what that
is.
Personally, I think a text file in the source directory would be best. It would
mean someone has downloaded the source (do same for binary). If they have never
downloaded a source or binary distribution of Sage, I can't really see why they
would need to edit the Wiki.
dave
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