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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Godel, Escher, Bach problem
Message-ID: <1069@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 13:09:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 13:09:47 1986
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In article <8431@ucla-cs.ARPA> verma@ucla-cs.UUCP writes:
>In article <226@decwrl.DEC.COM>, Eric asks:
>
>>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?

I think this criticism is off the mark.  The reason he didn't get any answers
is because nobody had any.  I suspect that the answer is that there is no
such representation; but a proof thereof is more suitable for a thesis than
for a net article.

Do you really want everybody who doesn't know the answer to reply?

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108