Prentice Bisbal wrote:
Jeff Squyres wrote:
Can you put together a small example that
shows the problem...
Jeff,
Thanks for requesting that. As I was looking at the oringinal code to
write a small test program, I found the source of the error. Doesn't it
aways work that way.
Not always, but often enough.
George Polya was a mathematician who spent much time trying to
understand problem-solving techniques, leading for example to his book,
"How to Solve It." It contains the line:
"If there is a problem you can’t solve, then there is an easier problem
you can solve: find it."
For most of my life, I remembered that line incorrectly, but I prefer
my version:
"If there is a problem you can’t solve, then there is an easier problem
you _can't_ solve: find it."
When we try to produce the simplest version of the problem we can't
solve, we often solve the problem.
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