| <Gumug> | i read that the book doesn't have answers to the problems in [SICP] |
| <twb> | Gumug: you don't want answers |
| <TauPan> | twb: you forgot the handwave, the jedi mind-trick doesn't work without waving your hand! |
— #scheme; 18 August, 2007
It may be contrary to the spirit of the SICP* to release answers to SICP;† but since they're poor solutions, we'll do it anyway.
We'd like to converge upon SICP's unpublished answers‡ through incremental community effort;§ and that's where you come in.
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* Abelson, Hal; Jerry Sussman, and Julie Sussman. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
† See epigraph supra.
‡ Cf. Kant's Ding an sich; it's an article of faith, in other words, that answers to SICP exist. Or a necessary untruth; i.e., “die Unwahrheit als Lebensbedingung.” (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Böse, § 4.)
§ Incremental community effort is not unlike a Monte Carlo simulation: it converges upon the truth by a heroic sequence of untruth. The predicate here is consensus (cf. Wikipedia).