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"If this is a childrens' riddle, and that is the 'correct' answer, then that teaches the child to blur the definitions of words, and that is dangerous because it leads to sloppy rhetoric."
(sorry, don't know how to do a proper quote)
Actually i'd say that if Hal's answer is the correct one, it teaches lateral thinking rather then just plain ABC linear logic. kinda like the old "how many animals on Moses' ark" riddle.... Noah had the ark, but we follow the story of the math rather than looking for the facts. another one that comes to mind is "where did they bury the survivors?".
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