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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Godel, Escher, Bach problem
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 12:23:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 12:23:34 1986
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> >I don't think this got posted the first time I tried it, so I am trying again.
> >
> >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?

Probably because nobody really cares about TNT.
Certainly those who do have better things to do than to
tediously express "b is a power of 10" in it.