I find this is more of a koan than a “real question”. (Example of koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping?) Since I have no idea what the answer would refer to even if all the alternatives were 100%...
Suppose n=1,2,3,4 is the number of correct answers in the set S = {A, B, C, D}. Then it is easy to see that for any of these values of n, no n element(s) of S can be found such that n/4 is equal to the percentage displayed on these elements. So the question is undefined/insoluble/weird/paradoxical/etc.
It struck me as dissolving because gelvat gb nafjre gur dhrfgvba yrnqf gb pbashfvba, naq bayl hcba rknzvavat bar’f nffhzcgvbaf naq erzbivat gurz qbrf bar ernyvmr gur dhrfgvba vgfrys vf jebat. It sounds like people agree that this is a poor post title though, do you have any suggestions that would be clearer?
gelvat gb nafjre gur dhrfgvba yrnqf gb pbashfvba, naq bayl hcba rknzvavat bar’f nffhzcgvbaf naq erzbivat gurz qbrf bar ernyvmr gur dhrfgvba vgfrys vf jebat
That reminds me of the puzzle where you have to touch all of the nine dots on a 3x3 square array with at most four line segments and without ever taking the pencil off the page, which znal crbcyr pna’g qb orpnhfr gurl qba’g ernyvmr gurl’er nyybjrq gb yrnir gur fdhner qryvzvgrq ol gur bhgre qbgf.
It sounds like people agree that this is a poor post title though, do you have any suggestions that would be clearer?
I can’t think of anything decent (except trivial stuff like “Interesting self-referential question on Memedroid”) at the moment.
What is meant by “dissolving a question”?
I find this is more of a koan than a “real question”. (Example of koan: What is the sound of one hand clapping?) Since I have no idea what the answer would refer to even if all the alternatives were 100%...
Suppose n=1,2,3,4 is the number of correct answers in the set S = {A, B, C, D}. Then it is easy to see that for any of these values of n, no n element(s) of S can be found such that n/4 is equal to the percentage displayed on these elements. So the question is undefined/insoluble/weird/paradoxical/etc.
It refers to a Sequence post.
Still, this other post would have been more relevant than that IMO, so I still think the title of this post isn’t terribly appropriate.
It struck me as dissolving because gelvat gb nafjre gur dhrfgvba yrnqf gb pbashfvba, naq bayl hcba rknzvavat bar’f nffhzcgvbaf naq erzbivat gurz qbrf bar ernyvmr gur dhrfgvba vgfrys vf jebat. It sounds like people agree that this is a poor post title though, do you have any suggestions that would be clearer?
That reminds me of the puzzle where you have to touch all of the nine dots on a 3x3 square array with at most four line segments and without ever taking the pencil off the page, which znal crbcyr pna’g qb orpnhfr gurl qba’g ernyvmr gurl’er nyybjrq gb yrnir gur fdhner qryvzvgrq ol gur bhgre qbgf.
I can’t think of anything decent (except trivial stuff like “Interesting self-referential question on Memedroid”) at the moment.