Category: Humor

A really tough puzzle

1 August, 2009 (21:37) | Humor

100 prisoners are each locked in a room with three pirates, one of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner has 10 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned. And each pirate has twelve coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either more or less than a […]

Programming vs. Engineering vs. Mathematics.

20 June, 2008 (17:28) | Programming, Humor, Computer Science

An experiment was conducted in order to study the differences between programmers, engineers, and mathematicians. One programmer, one engineer, and one mathematician were all locked in separate classrooms for one week. Each classroom contained all of the normal things you’d find in a classroom: chalkboard, chalk, desks, etc. In addition to that […]