[ExI] very asian gold box?

[BillK]

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 at 21:35, spike jones via extropy-chat
<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:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Please also, what is the Variation of Goldbach’s conjecture?
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> spike
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I think this is what you are looking for.
<https://thatsmaths.com/2022/07/14/goldbachs-conjecture-and-goldbachs-variation/>
Quote:
In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, published in
1979, Douglas Hofstadter discussed an interesting modification of
Goldbach’s Conjecture that he called Goldbach’s Variation. He wondered
if any even number can be expressed as the difference of two odd
primes.
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Found with the help of Perplexity Pro AI.    :)
BillK