Re: bashrc

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>> > -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
>> > Their is five errers in this sentance.
>> 
>> Took me a while to find the fifth, then my brain briefly rebelled.
>>
>the error could be, that there are only four (orthographical) 
>errors. but as it says, that there are five errors, which is correct, we
>have only four errors. so we again have five ... *completely perplex*
>
>i have the impression, that this has something to do with a thing, which 
>my math teacher called "russels antinomy".

The usual word in English is "paradox" ... it's the same kind of thing
as Russell's Paradox, yes. "A barber who shaves exactly those men who do
not shave themselves." The usual statement of Russell's Paradox is in
terms of a set containing itself as a member, but I think the above
reduces to that.

Er, off-topic, sorry :)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]