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Was he joking?

• formalsystem 12y ago
  He wasn't serious but he would have been interested in a quick answer. I didn't get it cause I couldn't think of a quick way to know what a reasonable upper bound for the serial number is (I believe they're printed sequentially). To be fair the guy spent his whole career learning how to count things!
• CurtMonash 12y ago
  Yes. Anything else would have been ... problematic.
  • ars 12y ago
    You should have told him "I expected you to say that" and let infinite recursion reign free. :)
    • CurtMonash 12y ago
      No, that's something to do in a Hilary Putnam philosophy class. He's the one who announces at the beginning of the term there will be a two-part final: A. Write a question suitable for this course. B. Answer it. You will be graded on both parts.