But i've heard it before, and i spent that time remembering rather than ratiocinating, so this is not so impressive. Or rather, i knew the general shape of the answer and the reasoning, and i just had to work out the details again.
It's an interesting puzzle, because you can pretty much work out the answer from symmetry arguments without knowing the mechanism; i don't know if this makes it easier or not!
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Date: June 18th, 2007 05:40 pm (UTC)From:But i've heard it before, and i spent that time remembering rather than ratiocinating, so this is not so impressive. Or rather, i knew the general shape of the answer and the reasoning, and i just had to work out the details again.
It's an interesting puzzle, because you can pretty much work out the answer from symmetry arguments without knowing the mechanism; i don't know if this makes it easier or not!
-- tom