Indian Space Research Organisation has built a supercomputer, which is to be
India’s fastest in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS
(220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).
“SAGA-220” is fully designed and built by Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre using
commercially available hardware, open source software components and in
house developments.
The system is environmentally green and consumes a power of only 150 KW.
This system can also be easily scaled to many PetaFLOPS (1000 TeraFLOPS)
partha
The Professor shares his discoveries, so that you can share them with others.
2011-05-04
An autograph or a kiss ?
Raymond Smullyan teaches a clever and honest method of earning a kiss. See ::
http://server3.pianosociety.com/protected/smullyan-rambles.mp4
He teaches a less elegant way to plant a kiss. See ::
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=235
In case you are wondering who this pervert Raymond Smullyan is, look at my blog entry "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever " (given below).
partha
http://server3.pianosociety.com/protected/smullyan-rambles.mp4
He teaches a less elegant way to plant a kiss. See ::
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=235
In case you are wondering who this pervert Raymond Smullyan is, look at my blog entry "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever " (given below).
partha
Maths is no fun.... who says ?
Read these .....
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?cat=9 (this one was written by a mathematician)
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html (this one was written by a maths Prof)
....and now ask yourself the same question again.
partha
http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?cat=9 (this one was written by a mathematician)
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html (this one was written by a maths Prof)
....and now ask yourself the same question again.
partha
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever -- by Raymond Smullyan
I have just received a book on logic puzzles, by Raymond Smullyan. Smullyan would be best described as the craziest and most gifted person in this world. He is a mathematician, a concert pianist, logician, writer, magician, conjurer, raconteur, all packed in one. Here is a masterpiece which I found on the Internet :
In 1992, George Boolos called the following "the hardest logic puzzle ever". I figured that people here would especially like it. It's certainly a Raymond Smullyan inspired puzzle and goes as follows.
"Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language, in which the words for yes and no are 'da' and 'ja', in some order. You do not know which word means which."
Just for the sake of clarity, George Boolos gives the following four clarifications: (1) It could be that one god gets asked more than one question (and thus, some god is not asked any question at all). (2) What the second question is, and to which god it is put, may depend on the answer to the first question (likewise, for the third question). (3) Whether Random speaks truly or not should be thought of as depending on the flip of a coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails, falsely. (4) Random will answer 'da' or 'ja' when asked any yes-no question.
Good luck!
partha
PS: The person who solves the above puzzle will be declared as the "second Smullyan", in this blog. You can email me your ssolutions.
PPS : To know more about Raymond Smullyan, visit ::
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan
PPPS: A solution is here.
PPPPS: This problem is described here
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