[extropy-chat] Petals around the rose

[Damien Broderick]

At 01:36 AM 6/6/2004 -0600, Alan Eliasen wrote:

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>    Ah, but you haven't learned all of the rules.  You *think* you always get
>it right, but I hit an case early on (there were 5 1's) where the correct
>answer was "Wrong!  There are [a blank] petals around the rose."  So you
>thought you had it, and would probably enter a zero, (I didn't,) where the
>correct answer was evidently to enter a blank.

Nope. The correct answer *is* to enter a zero, and a bug in the system 
tells you:

"Correct!  There are [a blank] petals around the rose."

Damien Broderick