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Intuition or Logic in Technical Troubleshooting
This isn’t so bad: 7 + 5 + 4. An easy one, that’s 14.
I am taking a test. It is an important test, and I and all the other students know this. There is an air of nervous apprehension as we open the first page and begin. Ahh, this isn’t so bad: 7 + 5 + 4. An easy one, that’s 14. The next one is more difficult: 9 * 12. I have a moments hesitation as I calculate. There, done. My pencil writes “81” and I look to the next question. It’s a logic question. Good, I like logic.
“If a cumulus cloud has a radius of 14, and the diametric is opposed to the vertical, what is the arc radian?”
I see that some of my fellow students have also reached this point. They are puzzled, some showing early signs of panic. Not such an easy test, is it? But I turn my razor sharp mind to the problem…
