Timeline for Ummm what day was it, a matchstick puzzle
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 15:38 | comment | added | ABcDexter | Works fine for today ^-^ | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 1:18 | comment | added | Matt | Yesterday could also be acceptable on July 23, (which, in Europe, at least, would be 22/7). | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 15:28 | comment | added | TTT | @ABcDexter - if you renamed the question it would have been far too easy! I like it the way you have it. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 14:58 | comment | added | ABcDexter | @question_asker, Yes exactly. That is why I didn't do it at the first place. And by the way, this question was asked in a puzzling competition here :-) | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 14:56 | comment | added | question_asker | @ABcDexter Please let's not. Though there is a fair point here somewhere about the possibility of leaving the relative date out entirely and otherwise obliquely hinting at it. | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 14:55 | comment | added | ABcDexter | @TTT Do you want the question to be renamed as "What day was it yesterday" :-P | |
| Mar 16, 2016 at 14:12 | comment | added | TTT | @jpmc26, I must be explaining this poorly. I'm just curious about a psychological experiment. How far from pi day could this question have been asked so that it would still be considered a good question? I'm suggesting the answer might be about 3-5 days... | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 23:07 | comment | added | jpmc26 | @TTT "Yesterday" will always be assumed to be "yesterday at the time of writing" (equal to the day before the post was written), and since these posts are all timestamped, there's no problem. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:40 | comment | added | question_asker | @ttt I get what you're saying but I think the answer is that any day is a good day as long as you incorporate [integral part of the answer] into the question somehow. It doesn't have to be about the day | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | TTT | @question_asker - I know that. But for fun, I'm just wondering when the cutoff would be. I think tomorrow would be fine, maybe even the next day or any day this week. Next month, probably not. Can you draw a line in the sand and say, "This is a good answer if the question is asked within X days of pi day." I wonder what X is. | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:18 | comment | added | question_asker | @ttt but the question isn't posted six months from now, it was posted today | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:09 | comment | added | TTT | @question_asker, I meant, if this question was asked 6 months from now, I don't think the answer would be correct since 22/7 does not equal pi. (6 months from now you wouldn't say, 22/7 = pi and pi day is March 14. At least I don't think I would say that...) | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:05 | comment | added | question_asker | @ttt it will always be yesterday relative to the posting of the question | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 20:04 | comment | added | TTT | So "yesterday" is close enough? When is the cutoff that this answer would no longer be appropriate? :P | |
| Mar 15, 2016 at 19:14 | comment | added | ABcDexter | Absolutely correct. Both the reasoning and the answer ^_^ | |
| S Mar 15, 2016 at 19:12 | history | suggested | ABcDexter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved formatting a bit.
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| Mar 15, 2016 at 19:08 | vote | accept | ABcDexter | ||
| Mar 15, 2016 at 19:02 | history | answered | question_asker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |