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KT discovers a paradox: half the doughnuts are simultaneously chocolate and not chocolate. Then he sings a ditty from The Pirates of Penzance.
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It's like the old riddle: I have two American coins. Total they value 55 American cents. One of them is not a nickel. What are the two coins?
The answer is of course a fifty-cent piece and a nickel. The fifty-cent piece is not a nickel, but many people will assume that if one coin is not, then neither can the other one be.
I had to specify American coins and a value of 55 American cents because no doubt there are other versions of the riddle for other currencies, and mixing economic systems may result in sneaky alternative answers.
The answer is of course a fifty-cent piece and a nickel. The fifty-cent piece is not a nickel, but many people will assume that if one coin is not, then neither can the other one be.
I had to specify American coins and a value of 55 American cents because no doubt there are other versions of the riddle for other currencies, and mixing economic systems may result in sneaky alternative answers.
Whereas I'd encountered enough double-speak in the world that I kept trying to figure out "Okay, this is what they're saying, but this is probably what they actually mean..." and so kept on making exactly the assumptions they counted on me to make, until I learned to think two ways about such riddles.
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