On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> 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. > > > I think it might be okay to ask a slightly simpler question as a requirement > to get an account (i.e., something that does not require starting up Sage), > but I don't think putting everything down and requiring the user to do a > geometry problem every time they commit a page is is appropriate. >
I'm happy to change the question to something easier once people agree on a reasonable question. Does anybody know what sort of math a typical spammer would know? I don't personally know any spammers :-) -- William -- 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
