Sites blocking the ill-educated as well as spam-robots...

[d000hg]

A forum I'm signing up for requires answers to these questions:

• What was George Orwell's famous book (a number)?
• What is the dot product of (4, -1, 0) and (5, 3, 20) times the number of toes on my right foot?

Now granted it is a site related to maths but outside the western world, are programmers (many of them school kids) going to know this kind of thing for certain?

Anyone else seen any good questions to prove you're a human?

[OwlHoot]

A forum I'm signing up for requires answers to these questions:

• What was George Orwell's famous book (a number)?
• What is the dot product of (4, -1, 0) and (5, 3, 20) times the number of toes on my right foot?

Now granted it is a site related to maths but outside the western world, are programmers (many of them school kids) going to know this kind of thing for certain?

Anyone else seen any good questions to prove you're a human?

They probably all know it _outside_ the Western world, because their education system is better than ours.

Anyway, if in doubt surely all one need to is look up dot product on Wikipedia.

[d000hg]

I was thinking more the 1984 question... is it covered in schools in Asia? In fact do the Russians teach it or find it offensive?

[TheFaQQer]

I was thinking more the 1984 question... is it covered in schools in Asia? In fact do the Russians teach it or find it offensive?

Wikipedia will tell you the answer fairly easily.

[stek]

Isn't the title actually 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and therefore strictly speaking a word?


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[TheFaQQer]

Isn't the title actually 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and therefore strictly speaking a word?

No.

It might be a phrase, or a sequence of words, but not a word.

[alluvial]

No.

It might be a phrase, or a sequence of words, but not a word.

And how many words is it? Does the hyphenated eighty-four count as one?