[ExI] very asian gold box?

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
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Subject: Re: [ExI] very asian gold box?

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 at 22:25, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Cool so what might that sly Hofstadter have been signaling with the missing e, n, d?
> spike
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These typos don't appear in the Internet Archive edition of Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
<https://archive.org/details/douglas-hofstadter-godel-escher-bach-an-eternal-golden-braid>

Perhaps they are just typos, and corrected in later editions.

BillK

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That's what I thought too.  But my son won a math contest, the prize being a copy of GEB.  (Is that cool or what?)  His copy was printing 36, dated 2023.  My copy was printed in September 1980.  Jillions of obsessive geeks have pored over that work with a microscope.  That triple omission would be spotted a thousand times.  Had it been unintentional, it would have been corrected in 43 years methinks.

I saw that electronic copy and noticed it had at least one error that is not in the paper copy.  I speculate that those responsible for the editorial corrections were unaware that the missed e, n, d might have been intentional.  

spike