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

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From: G*rd*n
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:14

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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?

*Anarcissie* wrote:
> > Can we cheat by ... using the same face for 6 and 9?

jimcolli@pacbell.net:
> That would satisfy the second sentence.


But a digit isn't the same as the glyph which represents it.
In some alphabets / fonts, 6 can't be rotated to make a 9.

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