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Starting problems
Questions precedes answers. A new topic should start with a question.
Practice problems
Practice is important. Why not make it meaningful?
Just problems
Set the creative spirit free.
Best answers
If you can solve this problem, you are good.

What is the best question?

Epimenides (c. 7 century B.C.) once made a long pilgrimage to meet Buddha. When he finally met him, Epimenides said, "I have come to ask a question. What is the best question that can be asked and what is the best answer that can be given?"

Buddha replied, "The best question that can be asked is the question you have just asked, and the best answer that can be given is the answer I am giving."

Raymond Smullyan
5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
St. Martin's Press, NY, 1983

 

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