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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Fibonacci Numbers?
Date: 20 Sep 1994 19:57:26 -0500
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In article <35n2ec$5ng@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, Robert Dewar <dewar@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Keith, I can't believe you would make such a mistake, 34 indeed, doesn't
>everyone know that THE ANSWER is 42.
>
(Raising hand, waving frantically)  I do! I do! :-)

>By the way, I have a suggestion. When people
>ask a truly elementary question, defined as one which
>we can pretty much assume that all the readers of the newsgroup know the
>answer to, then it's probably better to EMAIL responses, we have now had
>half a dozen posts giving the formula for Fibonacci numbers, which is not
>very enlightening.
>
Better still, it amazes me that nobody said, "Um, was this problem
assigned for a programming project?"  It just seemed so damn basic to
me.  Of course, Rob E.'s clever algorithm was interesting (yeah,
yeah, I'm sure it can be found in any NM cookbook :-)

>Now if someone knows the question to which 42 is the answer, that would
>be really interesting and worth posting, though probably not to this
>newsgroup.
>
Yup...maybe I should set Followup To to "alt.fan.douglas-adams" :-)


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