[ExI] very asian gold box?

[spike at rainier66.com]

Cool so what might that sly Hofstadter have been signaling with the missing e, n, d?

 

spike

 

 

From: Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> 
Sent: Saturday, 28 December, 2024 1:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] very asian gold box?

 

The Goldberg Variations are a set of compositions by JD Bach.

Hofstadter, as is his won't, is being clever.

 

On Sat, Dec 28, 2024, 2:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

 

 

There are many fans of Hofstader’s Eternal Golden Braid here as I recall.  I noted to a young friend that it is the most letter-perfect book I have ever read, as I don’t recall seeing a single typo in it.  He found two, and I found a third, right together on page 404:

 

Tortoise: Now whatver has come over you, Achilles?  Well, thank you for your outstandig generosity, and I hope you have sweet dreams about the strange Golbach Conjecture, and its Variation.  Good night.

 

 

 

 

The same sentence has omitted three letters, the e in whatever, the n in outstanding, and the d in Goldbach.  It is on page 404.  So e, n, d are missing, all in the same sentence.  Are there any computer jockeys here who can suggest reasons why Hofstadter would have omitted e, n, d?

 

Please also, what is the Variation of Goldbach’s conjecture?

 

spike

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