Re: Riddles (was: Lateral Thinking)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 20:33:02 MST

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Justin Corwin wrote:
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> is it a hypercube?

"tesseract" == hypercube

The riddle itself is a Hofstadterian self-answering riddle.

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