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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Godel, Escher, Bach problem
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Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 00:49:54 EST
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>>In Godel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter poses the problem of expressing "b
>>is a power of 10" in Typographical Number Theory.  Does anybody have a solution
>>for this?
>
>He asked this January second; it is now the EIGHTEENTH!  That is SIXTEEN days
>to get the answer.  This is net.math is it not?  I have only one more question,
>
>		Why is it that when simple questions are asked
>		on this net there seem to be nearly a thousand
>		'GENIUSES', each giving his/her own version of
>		the answer, but whenever any resonable problem 
>		is asked, it is promptly ignored?

I couldn't imagine duller problems than DHs.  In fact, I can't imagine
anyone publically admitting they ever read GEB!

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Matthew P Wiener
UCB Math Dept
Berkeley CA 94720