This is excellent. I got both wrong answers (19, 26) before getting the right one. Lovely abstraction leaks.
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Dueling Occam's Razors?
Given an arbitrary integer from 0 to 100, what's the simplest explanation for producing that integer as the answer?
e.g. bunch of bananas = 4; clock = position of hour hand; visible polygon = 9, occluded polygon = 3. And we get ... 42!
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But the bunch of bananas is changing, so how can it have constant value? Occam's razor still has to explain all, no?
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Yes, but the valuation is dependent on quantity, which is changing. In Naveens proposed (no doubt facetious) solution that is not handled.


