25th March 2007, 1:39 PM
lazyfatbum Wrote:That was just plain stupid. Logically, real actual logic, says that upon hearing that blue eyed people have to leave, even without the ability to vocally communicate, it wouldn't take more than 24 hours for all 100 blue eyed people to be off the island. At no time in any logical situation do things happen within even numbers lateral times such as 'exactly 100 days'.
Stupid.
I'm not sure I get what you are saying. Re-read the riddle. One only leaves the island if they know what color their own eyes are, not if they have blue eyes, and they willingly do it, they aren't forced off.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)