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I enjoyed the puns, for example, PageRank - Larry Page, erlang - Agner Erlang, Price Club - Sol Price
(1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? __ cents
(2) If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? __ minutes
(3) In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? __ days
Three simple questions with misleading answers :)
I had a lot of fun browsing through this Wikipedia entry!
A bunch of funny Rust trivias! (by @Jonhoo)
Another enticing list to dig into!
An accured list of computing weirdness. Each piece of text is a link that leads to the explanation.
I found it in a recent episode of the Corecursive podcast. https://corecursive.com/quines-polyglot-code/
A lot of fun linguistic plays. Including anagram, palindrome, mnemonics and many more.
<blockquote>How James Somers reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes</blockquote>
<blockquote>Create your own opera inspired song with Blob Opera - no music skills
required ! A machine learning experiment by David Li in collaboration with
Google Art...</blockquote>
Funny location names in the comments.