• Toreador (11/30/2011)


    Hugo Kornelis (11/30/2011)


    To me, it was immediately obvious that the v3=v2 / v2=v3 error was a mistake made when entering the question and not a deliberate trick.

    Same here, but that was largely because I've followed Tom's comments on these forums for a while and didn't think he'd resort to trick questions 🙂

    True that. Would the question have come from someone I didn't know yet, I would have picked the same answer, but with less confidence in the outcome. It is a sad fact that some of the questions submitted to the QotD are indeed trick questions.


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