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Appearances on This Chart

April 5, 2022From the book Math Games with Bad Drawings

Trying to fill in a self-referential chart: how many times does the digit 1 appear on it? Every answer changes the count.

Transcript

Four charts, each "Digit: 1 / Appearances on This Chart: ?" · "1" → "no, now there are two!" · "2" → "no, there's only one!" · "11" → "accurate in binary, but no points awarded here" · "0" → "you… what? are you trying to gaslight me?"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-appearances-on-this-chart/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Logic & Proof › Self-ReferenceComputer Science › Binary & Encoding
Level
High SchoolCollege
Themes
Self-ReferencePuzzles & Problems