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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Dot Town, U.S.A.
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 11:30:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 11:30:40 1984
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After several of us wasted a lot of time trying to analyze the
paradox that the citizenry of Dot Town survive okay until someone
tells them something they all knew, Gary Moss finally nailed the
error in our analysis.  (I had been prepared to bring in G"odel's
incompleteness theorem in order to guarantee that there was no
way to predict how long one would have to wait before suiciding,
but it turns out to be unnecessary to do so.)  This is a remarkable
puzzle.  Thanks for posting it!