The world simplest impossible problem (pdf)

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Certain I'm not the only one who raised an eyebrow at "it's a matrix problem" and the cranking out of Matlab to find solutions to x+y = 6

My answer to his question at the end of the essay would be "0, π and 2π". Strangely, this triple is the only one that looks nice to me, even though all of "3 and 3", "0 and 6" and "2 and 4" as well as coming up with a pair with long decimals looks OK to me for the original question.

[1990]<p>The 2010 followup on <i>compressed sensing</i>: <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/clevescorner-compressed-sensing.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/cleves...</a>

This has the feeling of a pun where the person says something garbled and then starts laughing and pointing when you don't understand what he said.

why all the fuss, a solution would be just 2,4 , they didnt even get to that