{"id":10319,"date":"2011-07-18T12:16:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:16:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:16:23","slug":"logic-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/logic-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Logic puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TimHarford\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Harford<\/a> has been retweeting this little puzzle as part of a discussion with @paullewismoney:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Reminds me of an old riddle, Paul. Which weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? You will know the answer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks all tweets re: @paullewismoney and whether a pound of gold weighs more than a pound of feathers. Most of you are wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but @adam_j666 @andrew_F_smith and @cleverwithmoney have it right. Congrats. And I&#8217;m sure @paullewismoney had it right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The answer is a pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold. But an ounce of feathers weighs less than an ounce of gold&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Gold weighed in troy ounces (31.1g) with 12 to pound = 373.24g. Feathers weighed avoirdupois oz (28.35g) x 16 to pound = 453.59g.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Harford has been retweeting this little puzzle as part of a discussion with @paullewismoney: Reminds me of an old riddle, Paul. Which weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? You will know the answer&#8230; Thanks all tweets re: @paullewismoney and whether a pound of gold weighs more than a pound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-10319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomness","tag-interesting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Gr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10320,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}