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Lee Sallows's Autogram

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

Lee Sallows's famous autogram, a sentence that correctly counts its own letters and punctuation, and dares you to check.

Transcript

"Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !" –Lee Sallows

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-lee-sallows-s-autogram/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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Logic & Proof › Self-ReferenceNumber & Arithmetic › Counting
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Lee Sallows