My answer to kissycat1000

[azekeil]

[Poll #836226]

Comments

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Actually, no it's not.
1/10, must try harder.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Damn, nearly had you ;)

PS. Garth Marengi's Darkplace is fantastic! :)

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

"I had a cat once. I dropped a safe on it, it was a write-off, so I stood on it's head."

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

(paraphrasing, 'cause I can't remember exactly): "I had opened a doorway to evil, except it had no handles. So it wasn't a doorway. More like a portal really."

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

"It was really hard to shut. An abstract doorway that had these ornate handles."

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Is that the thing that's kind of "Look around you" meets "tales of the unexpected"?
I shall have to give it another try.

Boosh crossover

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

I had a cat once.I dropped a safe on it
*right* on it!

Re: Boosh crossover

[serena-lesley.livejournal.com]

There's a very good reason that there's a crossover. Watch it, you might recognise a few people. :)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

But interestingly, because the only answer you can give is "Yes", the poll is recursive if you answer it (the answer becoming the definition, and therefore recursive), indeterminate if you don't. It's kind of a schroedinger's poll.

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

No it's not. Recursion is applying a formula to get an answer, then applying the formula to that answer, and so on until the desired result is achieved. There is no recursion in this poll as one application gives the answer, you cannot apply it more than once.

The answer doesn't become the definition by answering yes.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes. I think I messed up in my definition of recursion - I was going with the fact that having to define the answer to get the answer met the definition for recursion, but I now understand recursion necessarily has to be repeated application of an algorithmn.

Well it had me confused for a while :)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

..or even without the spurious 'n'.

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

You could have made an axiomatic poll...

The answer to this poll is yes: 1)yes

Or a paradoxical one, similar to kissycat1000's

Can you answer no to this poll?: 1)no

*grin*

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Or even a rhetoric poll:

Is this poll rhetorical? [ ] Yes.

Yeah. I had actually got it right when I answered sarah_mum originally, but then the appearance of geeks answering the poll made me doubt my conviction.

Plus it's morning. Yep yep. I blame morning.

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Although subsequently I read that rhetoric doesn't actually mean not requiring an answer because it is obvious, but more generally talking about persuasive or effective writing or speech. How confusing!

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Indeed, often a misused phrase. ;)

It's not a question that doesn't require an answer because it is obvious. It is a question that was used for effect, rather than to illicit a response, so an answer is not expected. :)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Itym 'redundant'

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Eventually, and after some confusion, yes.