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- From: kvdoel@cs.ubc.ca (Kees van den Doel)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Berry's paradox (Re: "Vesterman's paradox"
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 05:30:15 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- "`The least integer not nameable in fewer than nineteen syllables' is
- itself a name consisting of eighteen syllables, which is a
- contradiction."
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- Bertrand Russell, "Mathematical Logic is Based on the Theory of Types",
- American Journal of Mathematics 30 (1908), p223.
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- Russell got it from a G. G. Berry after which the paradox is named.
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- See also:
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- Rudy Rucker, "The Berry Paradox", Speculations in Science and Technology
- (June, 1979), pp. 197-208;
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- reprinted in:
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- R. Rucker, "Infinity and the Mind", pp.100-.., well it sort of fades
- out...:-)
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- Kees
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