jbs@eddie.UUCP (Jeff Siegal) (02/17/86)
>> > You are staggering down a road ready to give up on life >> >when you come to a fork in the road where there are two people >> >standing. You have heard about this place. One of the roads goes >> >straight to a hospital and the other to a alligator-infested >> >swamp. One of these people always tells the truth and the other >> >always lies. You can ask either person one question and only >> >one question in order to determine which way the hospital is. >> >What would be the question and to whom would you ask it? "Which way would the other guy says goes to the hospital?" Then, go the other way. Jeff Siegal - MIT EECS