Manfred comments on Solutions and Open Problems - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Manfred 15 March 2014 06:53AM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 15 March 2014 10:03:56AM 4 points [-]

If you are certain that 100+98=198, but not that 99+99=198, some unfortunate accident has befallen the rule that if (A+1)+B=C, A+(B+1)=C.

The "unfortunate accident" may be that you simply didn't have enough time to apply the rule. If you have limited time, you have to stop somewhere. There doesn't have to be anything magical between steps N and N+1, it could merely mean that the timer went off at step N.

Comment author: Manfred 15 March 2014 07:13:10PM 1 point [-]

Yup, that's the idea :)