from the original post: * Everyone in the group knows the famous person * The famous person knows no one from the group So how do you satisfy these 2 conditions with more than 1 famous person?
You were not giving a differint point of view. Your point of view has been stated and proven wrong several times in this thread. What would it feel like to you if you're in front of a classroom, explaining an algorithm, and one pupil says it's wrong because of reason X. You correct the pupil and give an explenation in full. Five minutes later another pupil says exactly the same as the first pupil did, and ten minutes later another pupil tells you again exactly the same. You are to me like that last pupil is to the lecturer.
I was, but you chose not to try and understand what I was saying. I also understand what you are saying about the paradox, but I beleive your thinking to be incorrect, and was trying to explain why? Let's us just agree to disagree. Did you ever talk to your lecturer and explain your psudo code, and did he explain why he thought your code was wrong?
Agreed Yes, I talked about it with two differint assistants. The first assistant said it was wrong but couldn't explain why, it was his first day at work. The second assistant said it was correct if there is one and only one famous person in the group, but they implied that there could be none as well. Now let me just go fetch the posts where I already said this Edit: here it is: As seen in my first post: As seen in my second post:
Just thinking out loud here ... but what if... Lets say after a few iterations of the for loop current person is set to some new person because person 0 knew them. Then let's say that this person doesn't know anyone else in the group greater than the value of i at which this new current person was set. What if this person knew someone in the group lower that this version of i, would your program then set that as the famous person? In this case you would need to reset i every time you set the current person.
ok so lets say person 7 is the "some new person". Person 7 knows no one greater. If person 7 knows someone lower than person 7 then no, this would not be set as the famous person, why? because if this was the famous person then person 0 would also have known this person.
Just gone over it, and what I said is wrong if there is a famous person. If there wasn't then that is a different matter.
Isn't anyone reading threads anymore? I clearly stated exactly what you just said spike. I _know_ that it's wrong if there is a possibility of there being no famous person.
Yeah, I know you already said it, hence why I didn't discuss it any further. How about you calm down relix.
