[HUMOR] Re: Buffalo sentence (sidebar to Yakyakian Sentence)

From: Darin Sunley (dsunley@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 13:54:22 MDT

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From: "Brett Paatsch" <paatschb@optusnet.com.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 9:11 AM
Subject: Buffalo sentence (sidebar to Yakyakian Sentence)

>
> What do you figure the following actually means?
>
> Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
>
> - Brett Paatsch
>

Well, I count 8 bits of information, in the pattern 10100010.
Expressed in decimal, that's 162.

Alternatively, it may be 01011101, which expressed decimally is 93.
But this interpretation is suspect, because the encoding [Buffalo" =
0]renders the leading "Buffalo" redundant.

[Digression about the L/libertarian implications of the redundancy of
leading buffalos snipped for silliness.:)]

So the string "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo
buffalo" means 162, or something isomorphic to 162.

Darin Sunley
dsunley@shaw.ca

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