Recently I got into the daily word puzzle game Couch Potato Salad. At the end of the game, it shows the percent of players who “nailed”, ”sailed”, ”prevailed”, ”exhaled” and ”failed”. Once, I played the game shortly after midnight when the new puzzle becomes available. I nailed it (ha!), but noticed that the game results suspiciously neatly split into 33.3%, 66.6% and zeroes for the rest. Aha, I thought, there must be only three or six or nine or twelve of us playing the game that early in the morning. That got me interested in figuring the number of players based on the score.
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I think the confusion is about unverified assumptions. The author assumed that the problem is about an open or a leaky space (perhaps thinking about the sound traveling across the quad in the summer vs winter), while the teacher meant some closed container (e.g., a pressure cooker). The teacher wins.
One more... Integrate Spaced Repetition device (Ankiweb, Readwise, ...) into your reading/learning flow to mitigate the memory decay, esp as you expose yourself to more and more things.
And thank you for the number 9 - "do stuff in public"... In fact, this is what inspired this public comment. Haven't done this in eons.