Interesting Facts - Page 9

Sputid fakts

Like if you found the error in "Muphry's" instead of "Murphy's".

lol that Murphy's law one

My favourite Murphy's Law is ......."You never find a lost article until you replace it."

How did we know it was arsenic before the Marsh test?

If Hofstadter's law applies, then the excess time needed would have to tend to a specific value, because otherwise people would never get anything finished, and in fact they do. Therefore, the excess time needed after referring to Hofstadter's law over and over again in a struggle to find out when one will finish will be smaller every time you refer to it. Thus, if you have two similar tasks, and you estimate when you will be finished with it, but also when you will be finished with reference to Hofstadter's law, and then actually do the task and time yourself doing it, then you have three values from which you can calculate for every task, when you will finish it, even with reference to infinite iterations of applying Hofstadter's law. Thus, you will be able to say when you finish the second task.

But the problem with that is, that we would have to apply Hofstadter's law once again, which we cannot do, for infinity plus one doesn't work. Thus I have proven that given the condition that people actually finish stuff at some point, Hofstadter's law cannot work.

*Murphy

Is "Muphry's Law" an example of a Persian flaw, I wonder.

:p

I ran Hofstadter's law on my computer and got a StackOverflowException.

Update on the Amish population: it is now over 367,000 (about 50 thousand extra people in 7 years) this means that the prediction may not be as far-fetched as it may seem.