The Say of the Week November 28, 2008
Posted by dorigo in games, humor.Tags: logic
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“This sentence has thre erors“
(courtesy J.Wyss)
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Nice, kind of a barber paradox.
what’s the third one?
The miscount of errors.
Presumably the missing period is the third error. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
No full stop.
lovely, you stinking liar
wait… is J Wyss, the Jeff Wyss who worked on SLD?
Yes Giampi, he’s the one.
Kea, you must be kidding me!
Cheers,
T.
Tommaso, there is no full stop, dammit! Now it would have been funnier if he’d said, “This sentence has thre erors.”
Kea, ok. There is no full stop, damnit. To me it is still fun, but I acknowledge there are people who nit-pick more than I usually do (and my standards are pretty high!).
Cheers,
T.
The sentence is not mine. I’ve been using it for didactic reasons for some time now (years) now and forgot where I first read it. Maybe Hofstadter, but unlikely as I think the last book or article I’ve read by him is a few years old. Highest chance I read it in one of many books by John D. Barrow.
Jeff
p.s. ciao Giampi. Si sono io
The missing period is an extraneous mistake that might have happened if TD used cut-and-paste. But the we can make n=4 version easy enough
“This sentence has for erors”