Re: Ancient Information Theory (all things are numbers) Pythagoras

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From: jimcolli
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:45

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*Anarcissie* wrote:
> jimcolli@pacbell.net wrote:
> > ...
> > 1. You have two cubes.  You want to paint a single digit from 0 to 9
> > on each of the six faces of each cube so that the two together
> > display any day of the month, 1 to 31.  (For the first nine days
> > of the months, the display reads, "01", "02", etc.)
> > How do you do it?
> >
>
> Can we cheat by making using the same face for 6 and 9?

That would satisfy the second sentence.

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