How intelligent are YOU???

Good answer

I have an IQ of 168

Approx 2552 meters as far as current historical evidence reveals. A %u201Cpiece of string%u201D was used to mark the perimeter of a plot of land which might be owned by a %u201Cfreeman%u201D in olde england. A greedy man might measure out a circular plot but be seen as rather antisocial for not fitting in with the community. It was usual to measure a rectangular plot; boulders, streams etc. permitting.

Your IQ level doesn't really matter anyone can score just as good as the next person,some just need more time,and practice than others.As far as my answer,string cannot be measured b/c it can stretched,coiled,and knotted so it has different measurements.heh

-dirt dobbler

it is a nonsensical question.there is no one right answer.in fact posed in that manner there is no right answer to your question.

Its length.

Your question is too vague to come to a definite conclusion.

Amost spot on stargirl.
The length of a piece of string it double the distance from it's centre to one end.

@ : I_EAT_HUMAN_FAECES (11476)
What a load of shite. To be expected from some one with your name I guess since you MUST be full of it. If you must cut and paste answers from elsewhere, at least have the brains to edit the pasted version for errors you moron.

@ : violent10dency (10988)
Sorry babes, ANYTHING can be measured and EVERYTHING has a size.

@ : slackjawedyokel (6678)
EVERY question has an answer.

@ : Nihonjin (11530)
Technically correct, but shows a lack of thought.

@ : Fred (2022) How long is a piece of string?
Now please explain what is vague about that question?

@ : Gretchen (11380)
Technically your FIRST answer is correct because the question mark cannot be classed as a letter! That to me is a new acceptable answer to the question. Well done. I knew IIN'ers would come up with a new one!

the only thing you can establish is the maximum possible length of string and maybe the minimum size to qualify as a piece of string.

"EVERY question has an answer."

But not every sentence is a question.
An example of a sentence a speaker might at first think is a question is the following:
"is this white?"
but since there is no obvious context in which the sentence is stated the information curtailed in the word "this" is none.
The word "this" is actually a reference to context.. e.g. like when one points his finger at something and says this.. then the word "this" acquires a meaning.
Which is why the sentence "is this white?" often passes as a valid question.

But without context... it is not a question, and cannot even theoretically possibly be provided with an answer for there is no question really being asked.


now back to the question/sentence..

the answer
"The length of a piece of string it double the distance from it's center to one end."
is not an answer for we don't know what the length is off half the string either.
We know that its double the distance from center to the end... but since we have no clue what that distance is either.. we remain equally lost on how long the string is.

There is a very firm tradition that when someone claims to know the length of something, that that individual must then know the length of the units that make up the length.
I might as well claim that i'm 7distrons tall, but since nobody knows what a distron is, there is zero informational value in the statement.
I havent told anybody anything.

"@ : Fred (2022) How long is a piece of string?
Now please explain what is vague about that question?"

Whats vague about it is that it talks about a string without telling which string.
Normally it would help to actually know what one is supposed to know the length of.
Secondly, the question asks for length but doesn't tell what units it wants in return. Thats vague and a formula for confusion because humans use a lot of different ways to measure.
Ironically the answer all of a sudden takes half of what-we-still-dont-know-what-is as an acceptable unit of measurement.




"Sorry babes, ANYTHING can be measured and EVERYTHING has a size."
take it easy on the wild statements here.
if something existed which were absolutely undetectable by us.. we would never know its there to know that we cant detect it.
and we can never know if undetectable things exist or not. we do know things have wildly varying degrees of difficulty in detecting them, for instance, there are units eminating from the sun which pass through the earth almost as if it wasn't there at all.
nobody has ever known these units even exist at all until recent times.

so theres no giving that absolutely everything can be detected and measured.

You have not asked about a specific piece of string. You have just said "a" piece of string. I happen to have "a" piece of string in front of me. It measures 13cm 6mm.

You're welcome.

YOUR STRING PROBLEM WOULD BE ELIMINATED IF YOU SWITCH TO MAXIPADS.