“Double bind:Japan” I saw some news about Japan being double bind. USA or China… Of course, Japan can’t choose China. But Japan politics (mainly Jimin Party) seem to want to get insurance for emergency of USA. Emergency of USA… There are somethings, for example the end of US$, USA President Election, or fiscal budget expansion… I think that Japan gov concerns about USA’s future. If Japan gov doesn’t concern it, Japan gov will be more aggressive to China. But Japan gov doesn’t, so that it is signal for something bad information.
2021/7/26. The “more” or “more than or equal to” I met one difficult problem. The original story(English) is below site’s problem. And changed story(Japanese) includes changed rule. I think that this change is from mistranslation. But this change causes the problem MORE difficult. The original story http://www.bigriddles.com/riddle/ten-pirates-and-their-gold [The problem part] Each pirate will vote against a proposal if they know that they would end up with more gold if that proposal were to fail. [Changed rule] Each pirate will vote against a proposal if they know that they would end up with “more or equal to” gold if that proposal were to fail. It is a miracle difficult problem caused by mistranslation. “より大きい” corresponds to "more than". “以上” corresponds to "more than or equal to". “未満” corresponds to "less than". “以下” corresponds to "less than or equal to". In addition to the model answer, there are the following answ