See how your logic is in figuring this out.

A murderer is condemned to death. He has to choose between three rooms. The first is full of raging fires, the second is full of assassins with loaded guns, and the third is full of lions that haven’t eaten in 3 years. Which room is safest for him?

The third. Lions that haven’t eaten in three years are dead.

-Dan
(The answer is in white text above.)

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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - The Litany Against Fear, "Dune" by Frank Herbert

Not a bad riddle, but here is the problem.
The mathematicians mind does not think like that.

To see what I am trying to say, I have a famous joke (which is not funny like most math jokes):
'A physicist, engineer and mathematicians are traveling by a train in Scotland. The engineer sees black sheeps and says "how wonderful all scottish sheeps are black". The physicists says no, no, no, ' in this field the sheep are black'. The mathematicians corrects them and says, 'we know that there exists at least one field in scottland which has at least one sheep with a black side'.

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"Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power
over people is to assure the people that they are ruling
themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully
submissive slaves." - Joseph Sobran

That's a joke? I thought it had actually happened.

-Dan

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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - The Litany Against Fear, "Dune" by Frank Herbert

bing

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So I was taking this test yesterday on differencial equations (good thing we do not need to spell the word). And my proffessor tells everyone to move for the test. After that is finished he says, "Ah, now the classroom looks like a matrix". I just found that so funny, because only a mathemation can say things like that.

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"Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power
over people is to assure the people that they are ruling
themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully
submissive slaves." - Joseph Sobran

I have a question,
why did you guys choose the names and pictures that you have?
mine is my initials and that fish guy on my picture, I know him and he is on "HELLBOY" (movie) (I know a movie star, but he was dubbed so its not cool)

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I could tell you what a top squark is, but you'd want to kill yourself long before I finished the explanation. As for the picture, isn't it self-explanitory??

-Dan

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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." - The Litany Against Fear, "Dune" by Frank Herbert

I am the Earth agent for the Mysterons.

(By the way its 87.3% of all statistics that are made up)

RonL

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My avatar is the only picture of Chopin ever taken. Nothing to do with math but he's my favorite and the best composer for the piano of all time.

The name "ThePerfectHacker" was initially taken as a joke. When I first entered this forum I only had 2 questions. But decided to become a major member. The reason why I chose it is self-explanatory, hacking is fun.

My avatar is East Germany. Why I chose it is because I considered taking West Germany might get confused with Present Germany. I chose that flag during the World Cup (Since I watched on the Spanish channel they say it: "Cupa Mundail de La FiFa, Alemania, dos mini ses" ).

Before you joined the forum, the avatar that I had was of Dirichlet. One of my favorite mathemations. Why I chose him opposed to Fermat, Euler or Riemann I do not know. But he is one of the biggest number theorists from history (analytic version). It would be an honor to be blessed and gifted like him.
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Before you came to the forum CaptainBlank's avatar was a self-portiat. You should have seen it it was the funniest thing ever. He finally took it of.


Never, liked him. Nor do I like paino (pianist... ... funny word, say it fast).
I mostly like orchestra/violin (from old classical period).

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over people is to assure the people that they are ruling
themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully
submissive slaves." - Joseph Sobran

I chose quick cause I was going to go in and out of the forum after posing my question. Somehow I ended up getting +750 posts

My avatar is random, there is absolutely no reason why I picked it.

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The Stats of the Forum (in reputation)

1) Topsquark <---------I expected top 5, but #1
2) Captain Black <------Has Cap'n ever been thanked? I haven't seen it (or just don't remember)
3) Soroban <-----------Completely Expected (He has great explanations, but what really gets the rep flowing is the size 3 font )
4) ThePerfectHacker<--Shocking
5) Quick <------------And I'm still not up for MHFHelper

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I realized that when you answer more difficult questions the users (from the advanced section) almost never give reputation. Unlike the simple users who much of the time give you.

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I just realized that Thanks gives reputation.

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submissive slaves." - Joseph Sobran

The gap between positions 4 and 5 is about 8, while that between 4 and 1
is about 5.

RonL

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