http://www.folknology.com/blogs/default/tags/algorithm/ Techno group therapy en Al Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:04:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.folknology.com/blogs/default/2007/09/09/1189338780000.html Today my youngest daughter (6 years old) amazed me. She has a set of character dominoes based on 'Dora The Explorer', after tipping them out to play she said "I can't play with these daddy there are 2 missing". I was curious how she new they were missing and whats more how she knew instantly which ones were missing. She knew this within a few seconds and wasn't counting etc.. I wondered if she had photographic memory, so I asked how she worked out what was missing. She replied that two of the characters didn't have their doubles. In dominoes of course all members have doubles whether made from numbers or characters. I thought what a brilliant top down diagnosis (potentially algorithm) and great way of starting your check for missing pieces. She put them away and got the numerical (grown up) dominoes and proceeded along the same checking procedure before playing with them, astounding, she'd make a good programmer or detective or even doctor I guess. http://www.folknology.com/blogs/default/2007/09/09/1189338780000.html#comments http://www.folknology.com/blogs/default/2007/09/09/1189338780000.html Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:53:00 GMT