> It is not grammatical. "Three times <what> older than his son"? > You can be "5 years older than his son", but "three times" is not some > quantity, it is simply incomplete.
If you have a number X, 3 times that number is 3x. It is not incomplete, depends on another variable. >The only thing it could mean, if it meant anything, is that the son is y >years old, and the father is "3 times y" years older, making him y + 3 y = >4 y years old. If he soon is represented by the variable Y, "times older than his son" means 3Y, not 3+Y Regards, Jordi, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/774142 Title: logic error in a logic puzzle -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs