Talk:1155: Kolmogorov Directions - Revision history

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<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 16:00, 25 September 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l24" >Line 24:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 24:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:08, 9 June 2017 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:08, 9 June 2017 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">All but one prime number is odd. Odd interstates go north/south. Therefore, all but one prime interstate highways go north/south. I hope this answered your question.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He missed the perfect opportunity to use Black Hat calling a person who lives on Roosevelt Street. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.237|162.158.178.237]] 09:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>He missed the perfect opportunity to use Black Hat calling a person who lives on Roosevelt Street. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.237|162.158.178.237]] 09:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)</div></td></tr> </table>

172.69.23.25 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=144068&oldid=prev 162.158.178.237 at 09:27, 15 August 2017 2017-08-15T09:27:40Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:27, 15 August 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He missed the perfect opportunity to use Black Hat calling a person who lives on Roosevelt Street. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.237|162.158.178.237]] 09:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>How does Cueball know that? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:17, 2 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>How does Cueball know that? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:17, 2 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l26" >Line 26:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 24:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:08, 9 June 2017 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:08, 9 June 2017 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He missed the perfect opportunity to use Black Hat calling a person who lives on Roosevelt Street. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.237|162.158.178.237]] 09:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

162.158.178.237 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=144067&oldid=prev 162.158.178.237 at 09:26, 15 August 2017 2017-08-15T09:26:28Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 09:26, 15 August 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He missed the perfect opportunity to use Black Hat calling a person who lives on Roosevelt Street. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.237|162.158.178.237]] 09:26, 15 August 2017 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>How does Cueball know that? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:17, 2 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>How does Cueball know that? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 05:17, 2 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> </table>

162.158.178.237 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=141022&oldid=prev NiceGuy1 at 06:08, 9 June 2017 2017-06-09T06:08:34Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 06:08, 9 June 2017</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l23" >Line 23:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 23:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">(UTC) I finally signed up! This comment is mine. [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 06:08, 9 June 2017 </ins>(UTC)</div></td></tr> </table>

NiceGuy1 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=110031&oldid=prev 108.162.218.148 at 05:21, 27 January 2016 2016-01-27T05:21:06Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:21, 27 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l23" >Line 23:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 23:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. I also note that it's unlikely Cueball is meant to be messing with this person, leading them the wrong way, as if that were the case this would probably be Black Hat instead</ins>. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td></tr> </table>

108.162.218.148 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=110030&oldid=prev 108.162.218.148 at 05:18, 27 January 2016 2016-01-27T05:18:29Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:18, 27 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l22" >Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I came here to discover what's wrong/significant about prime numbered highways and streets named after presidents, LOL! Like if prime numbered highways tend to lead out of town or something else I never noticed. But seeing a complete lack thereof in either the explanation or the comments, I guess that means these are just peculiarities which make these directions work, that taking every left would guide you onto such a highway and such a street which would take you the wrong way. While I fully agree with the previous commenter about the potential ambiguity introduced by how you parse the sentence, not only does it seem like it's meant to be parsed as two separate exceptions, but also that combining BOTH prime numbered AND presidents' names seems to be getting ridiculously specific, LOL! After all, highways will TEND to only have numbers, and streets will TEND to only have names. - NiceGuy1 [[Special:Contributions/108.162.218.148|108.162.218.148]] 05:18, 27 January 2016 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

108.162.218.148 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=109772&oldid=prev 162.158.255.33 at 19:31, 22 January 2016 2016-01-22T19:31:36Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:31, 22 January 2016</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l20" >Line 20:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 20:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I am sincerely amazed that multiple fans of xkcd, having found this page and wished to participate in the discussion, demonstrated such serious comprehension issues with the simple directions in the comic. (Or maybe their sarcasm sailed over my head? This is the internet, after all...) One (presumably) mis-read the prime-number prohibition as applying to numbered streets instead of highways; the other misinterpreted the exclusion of streets named for presidents as referring to highways. In both cases they spent time considering how the directions given would apply in the real world, and composing their comments here -- where the actual comic and the text transcript are right here on the page! -- without, it seems, realizing their mistakes. This suggests that even the apparently-simple directions in the comic were not sufficiently simple after all... or, perhaps, that humans are worse at directions than we thought. —[[Special:Contributions/50.14.33.235|50.14.33.235]] 14:54, 3 April 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I am sincerely amazed that multiple fans of xkcd, having found this page and wished to participate in the discussion, demonstrated such serious comprehension issues with the simple directions in the comic. (Or maybe their sarcasm sailed over my head? This is the internet, after all...) One (presumably) mis-read the prime-number prohibition as applying to numbered streets instead of highways; the other misinterpreted the exclusion of streets named for presidents as referring to highways. In both cases they spent time considering how the directions given would apply in the real world, and composing their comments here -- where the actual comic and the text transcript are right here on the page! -- without, it seems, realizing their mistakes. This suggests that even the apparently-simple directions in the comic were not sufficiently simple after all... or, perhaps, that humans are worse at directions than we thought. —[[Special:Contributions/50.14.33.235|50.14.33.235]] 14:54, 3 April 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Arguably, the directions are ambiguous in text form. As you suggest, they could be validly parsed as "take every left that doesn't put you on a (prime-numbered highway) or (street named for a president)", or they could be understood as "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered (highway or street) named for a president. In the first parsing, the listener should avoid (prime-numbered highways) and (streets named for a president). In the latter, the listener should avoid (highways and streets) which are both prime-numbered and named for a president. The lack of an indefinite article between "or" and "street" leaves both options open. If the directions had been "take every left that doesn't put you on a prime-numbered highway or **a** street named for a president", the second parsing would not be correct. Fortunately, when spoken aloud, the intended parsing is clear by whether there is a short pause between "highway" and "or". [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.33|162.158.255.33]] 19:31, 22 January 2016 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

162.158.255.33 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=104844&oldid=prev 162.158.255.86 at 22:30, 10 November 2015 2015-11-10T22:30:22Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 22:30, 10 November 2015</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l12" >Line 12:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 12:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Let's hope the directions recipient is walking the 1 to 4 blocks East if that means a Westbound car traffic only street.  If in a section with an infinite loop, who's the ideal character to be a victim of Cueball's perverse joke?  I have seen a real GPS route away from the destination, where driving across a creek would be required to follow bad GPS routing.  [[Special:Contributions/69.161.108.98|69.161.108.98]] 06:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Let's hope the directions recipient is walking the 1 to 4 blocks East if that means a Westbound car traffic only street.  If in a section with an infinite loop, who's the ideal character to be a victim of Cueball's perverse joke?  I have seen a real GPS route away from the destination, where driving across a creek would be required to follow bad GPS routing.  [[Special:Contributions/69.161.108.98|69.161.108.98]] 06:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: This is the most bizarrely incomprehensible passage I've ever read. Hats off to you sir. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.86|162.158.255.86]] 22:30, 10 November 2015 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I would have thought that Randall meant the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, since he is lives in this area, and there's a Munroe Cemetery. The problem is the lack of highways mentioned, and the definition of number in the sense of highway designation. For instance, if I see a highway designated 2A, I can no longer assume that the highway number is decimal, but does that mean hexadecimal? does that mean I must interpret all highway numbers as hexidecimal, and determine their prime-ness from there? The other problem is the 'named after a president' - Assuming this is restricted to the USA, does this apply only to popular designations, or any name, however long forgotten about? because, looking at the map of Lexington, you will see that there are NO highways named after presidents. Oh, the worries. [[Special:Contributions/76.119.234.207|76.119.234.207]] 18:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I would have thought that Randall meant the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, since he is lives in this area, and there's a Munroe Cemetery. The problem is the lack of highways mentioned, and the definition of number in the sense of highway designation. For instance, if I see a highway designated 2A, I can no longer assume that the highway number is decimal, but does that mean hexadecimal? does that mean I must interpret all highway numbers as hexidecimal, and determine their prime-ness from there? The other problem is the 'named after a president' - Assuming this is restricted to the USA, does this apply only to popular designations, or any name, however long forgotten about? because, looking at the map of Lexington, you will see that there are NO highways named after presidents. Oh, the worries. [[Special:Contributions/76.119.234.207|76.119.234.207]] 18:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> </table>

162.158.255.86 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=32364&oldid=prev 50.14.33.235: how'd that happen...? 2013-04-03T14:54:22Z

<p>how'd that happen...?</p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:54, 3 April 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l17" >Line 17:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 17:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Or maybe those *are* directions to a store to buy a GPS...  [[Special:Contributions/208.98.237.225|208.98.237.225]] 20:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Or maybe those *are* directions to a store to buy a GPS...  [[Special:Contributions/208.98.237.225|208.98.237.225]] 20:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">I am sincerely amazed that multiple fans of xkcd, having found this page and wished to participate in the discussion, demonstrated such serious comprehension issues with the simple directions in the comic. (Or maybe their sarcasm sailed over my head? This is the internet, after all...) One (presumably) mis-read the prime-number prohibition as applying to numbered streets instead of highways; the other misinterpreted the exclusion of streets named for presidents as referring to highways. In both cases they spent time considering how the directions given would apply in the real world, and composing their comments here -- where the actual comic and the text transcript are right here on the page! -- without, it seems, realizing their mistakes. This suggests that even the apparently-simple directions in the comic were not sufficiently simple after all... or, perhaps, that humans are worse at directions than we thought. —[[Special:Contributions/50.14.33.235|50.14.33.235]] 14:54, 3 April 2013 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

50.14.33.235 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1155:_Kolmogorov_Directions&diff=24627&oldid=prev 99.141.122.243 at 07:09, 5 January 2013 2013-01-05T07:09:30Z

<p></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr style="vertical-align: top;" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: white; color:black; text-align: center;">Revision as of 07:09, 5 January 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l14" >Line 14:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 14:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I would have thought that Randall meant the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, since he is lives in this area, and there's a Munroe Cemetery. The problem is the lack of highways mentioned, and the definition of number in the sense of highway designation. For instance, if I see a highway designated 2A, I can no longer assume that the highway number is decimal, but does that mean hexadecimal? does that mean I must interpret all highway numbers as hexidecimal, and determine their prime-ness from there? The other problem is the 'named after a president' - Assuming this is restricted to the USA, does this apply only to popular designations, or any name, however long forgotten about? because, looking at the map of Lexington, you will see that there are NO highways named after presidents. Oh, the worries. [[Special:Contributions/76.119.234.207|76.119.234.207]] 18:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>I would have thought that Randall meant the town of Lexington, Massachusetts, since he is lives in this area, and there's a Munroe Cemetery. The problem is the lack of highways mentioned, and the definition of number in the sense of highway designation. For instance, if I see a highway designated 2A, I can no longer assume that the highway number is decimal, but does that mean hexadecimal? does that mean I must interpret all highway numbers as hexidecimal, and determine their prime-ness from there? The other problem is the 'named after a president' - Assuming this is restricted to the USA, does this apply only to popular designations, or any name, however long forgotten about? because, looking at the map of Lexington, you will see that there are NO highways named after presidents. Oh, the worries. [[Special:Contributions/76.119.234.207|76.119.234.207]] 18:34, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*It says "street named for a president", not "highway named for a president". And Lexington, Massachusetts, does have an Adams Street and a Grant Street, as well as a Taft Avenue, a Coolidge Avenue, and possibly others. However, Cueball's directions imply that the street has to be named for the president to qualify, as opposed to being named for someone else with the same last name. (There must be some cities with "Clinton Street"s that were named for Vice President George Clinton, Governor DeWitt Clinton, or someone else other than Bill Clinton.) --[[Special:Contributions/99.141.122.243|99.141.122.243]] 07:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Or maybe those *are* directions to a store to buy a GPS...  [[Special:Contributions/208.98.237.225|208.98.237.225]] 20:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #333333; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #e6e6e6; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Or maybe those *are* directions to a store to buy a GPS...  [[Special:Contributions/208.98.237.225|208.98.237.225]] 20:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)</div></td></tr> </table>

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