[quiz] [QUIZ #1] Patching my own Stupidity

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Tel writes:
> (defvar *query-strings* '((* "what is ~r times ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (* "what is the product of ~r and ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (* "what is the area of a ~r by ~r rectangle?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (* "If you have ~r card~:p in a deck, then give the deck away,
> how many cards do you have?~*"
> 			   (gennumber 0))
> 			  (+ "what is ~r plus ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (+ "what is the sum of ~r, ~r, and ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (+ "if you have ~r apricot~:p and buy ~r more, how many do you have?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (- "what is ~r less ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (- "what is the difference between ~r and ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (- "if you have ~r dollar~:p but owe ~r, you effectively have how many?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (/ "what is ~r over ~r?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (/ "what is the quotient of ~r and ~r"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))
> 			  (/ "if you could split ~r watch~:*~[es~;~:;es~] into ~r equal
> group~:p, how many are in each group?"
> 			   (gennumber gennumber))))

Really guys, these are no captcha.  Have a look at the student program
in PAIP (norvig.com).  It could easily solve these kind of problems,
with very little or no added rules and code.


Why remove the division by 0?  On the contrary, this is something that
could discriminate between a human and an computer, more than "what's
the difference between three and two".  Even if some human would
answer: EDIV0.


-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/

Pour moi, la grande question n'a jamais été: «Qui suis-je? Où vais-je?» 
comme l'a formulé si adroitement notre ami Pascal, mais plutôt: 
«Comment vais-je m'en tirer?» -- Jean Yanne