Thursday, June 20, 2002

Mirror, Mirror...
I found this problem in "No Ordinary Genius" by Christopher Sykes. It's pretty easy. But I do not have an answer!
You look in a mirror, and let's say you part your hair on the right side. You look in the mirror, and your image has its hair parted on the left side, so the image is left-to-right mixed up. But it's not top-to-bottom mixed up, because the top of the head of the image is there at the top, and the feet are down at the bottom. The question is: how does the mirror know to get the left and right mixed up, but not the up and down?

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