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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Okay, how about the other button: 6 * 9 = 42 (base 13) which charmed me no end when I first found it.
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Would I be demonstrating naivety, obtuseness, or stupidity, if I said I understood and liked that?
One of my favorite non fiction books is Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter. A wonderful book based on columns he wrote for Scientific American (after Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games... you see what Hofstadter did with the title there.. heh)
Among many other odd and peculiar topics he toyed with were "self referential" sentences, like: This sentence is odd grammatical structure constructed with.
That is my example, not his. His are much better and even more peculiar.
One example he discussed was having carved into a desktop in Chicago "This sentence" and then carving into a desktop in Vienna "is concluded in Vienna".
It gets better. And even more peculiar.