On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:24 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, James C Field wrote: > > bill lam wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, emptist wrote: > > > > > >> A famous ancient master of Zen would always say the same two words to > every > > >> visitors to him, 'drink tea', he would say. That means much. One of > them > > >> may be 'taste it, the truth is within you'. > > >> > > > > > > It is very easy to pose as a zen master. There was another monk who > > > always raised one finger as the answer (one finger zen, but not that > > > practiced by shaolin monks). Three candidates for a public > > > examination went together and asked the master to predict how many of > > > then will get a pass. The master just raised one finger as usual. > > > And he did actually foretell the result. The reason will be leaved as > > > an exercise to readers. > > > > > > > > HUH? > > number of candidate get pass, > 0 = not even one pass > 1 = one pass > 2 = one fail > 3 = all pass > > maybe to re-state the last case: 3 = each one passes -- Devon McCormick, CFA ^me^ at acm. org is my preferred e-mail ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
