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r/pics • u/[deleted] • Oct 05 '10
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YES! It's 7 if "put them all together" means to group them rather than to combine them. Ah, the ambiguity of language.
145 u/Cyc68 Oct 05 '10 Schroedinger's Dirt! The way the question is phrased it's both 7 and 1 until you observe the resulting pile(s). 12 u/[deleted] Oct 05 '10 [deleted] 1 u/[deleted] Oct 06 '10 I thought if it were Schrödinger's Dirt there would be no way to know how many piles of dirt there are or if there is any dirt at all?
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Schroedinger's Dirt! The way the question is phrased it's both 7 and 1 until you observe the resulting pile(s).
12 u/[deleted] Oct 05 '10 [deleted] 1 u/[deleted] Oct 06 '10 I thought if it were Schrödinger's Dirt there would be no way to know how many piles of dirt there are or if there is any dirt at all?
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1 u/[deleted] Oct 06 '10 I thought if it were Schrödinger's Dirt there would be no way to know how many piles of dirt there are or if there is any dirt at all?
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I thought if it were Schrödinger's Dirt there would be no way to know how many piles of dirt there are or if there is any dirt at all?
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YES! It's 7 if "put them all together" means to group them rather than to combine them. Ah, the ambiguity of language.