[Daily puzzle] Fill in the blanks \ stacker news ~science

2347 sats \ 19 comments \ @south_korea_ln 21h science

Fill in the blanks with a single digit such that the resulting sentence is true.

"In this sentence, the number of occurences of the digit 0 is ______, of the digit 1 is ______, of the digit 2 is ______, of the digit 3 is ______, of even numbers is ______, of odd numbers is ______, and of prime numbers is ______."

Previous iteration: #743084 (answer in #743754). Also, @Scroogey ended up solving the puzzle from 2 days ago: #741908

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500 sats \ 8 replies \ @Scroogey 15h

Brute force finds two solutions:

1 2 3 2 5 6 7 1 2 3 2 6 5 6

1 sat \ 6 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 15h

I think it's an impossible problem to solve!

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 11h

This would be an impossible variant to this self-referential problem:

"In this sentence, the number of occurences of the digit 0 is ______, of the digit 1 is ______, of the digit 2 is ______, of even numbers is ______, of odd numbers is ______, and of prime numbers is ______."

(notice the omission of the digit 3 part)

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scroogey 15h

What's wrong with either of my solutions?

1 sat \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 15h

In this sentence, the number of occurences of the digit 0 is 1, of the digit 1 is 2, of the digit 2 is 3, of the digit 3 is 2, of even numbers is 5, <---- of odd numbers is 6, and of prime numbers is 7.

In this sentence, the number of occurences of the digit 0 is 1, of the digit 1 is 2, of the digit 2 is 3, of the digit 3 is 2, of even numbers is 6, <---- of odd numbers is 5, and of prime numbers is 6.

I'm considering that 0 is neither even nor odd

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scroogey 15h

I think zero is generally considered even as it can be divided by two without remainder.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 15h

Since the number zero is even, both are correct!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 12h

Yes, there should be two valid solutions.

I'll post the reasoned solution to this problem at the same I post the next problem tomorrow.

I like brute force solving problems in my daytime job. It's sometimes so much faster.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 15h

Code here

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15h

This is the answer ChatGPT gave.

"In this sentence, the number of occurrences of the digit 0 is 2, of the digit 1 is 1, of the digit 2 is 2, of the digit 3 is 1, of even numbers is 3, of odd numbers is 3, and of prime numbers is 3."

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 12h

Yeah, it's bad at this.

For other daily puzzles, i checked, it did arrive to the solution. But I'll just keep assuming people do it for the fun of solving rather than the few sats i give as rewards here and there. No way to police this anyhow :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h

I wonder why they haven't built in the capability for ChatGPT to simply say, "I don't know." The solution it gave is so obviously wrong.

(I haven't used it for previous problems, not that anyone accused me. But this one seemed especially suitable to test on chatgpt, and it failed pretty miserably.)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 19h

“In this sentence, the number of occurrences of the digit 0 is 1, of the digit 1 is 11, of the digit 2 is 2, of the digit 3 is 1, of even numbers is 2__, of odd numbers is 1, and of prime numbers is __2."

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @UsgBtc21 19h

For the digit 0: Note the number of occurrences of "0" in the sentence after filling in the blanks. Example: # There are X occurrences of the digit 0.
For the digit 1: Count the occurrences of "1" after filling in the blanks. Example: # There are X occurrences of the digit 1.
For the digit 2: Count the occurrences of "2" after filling in the blanks. Example: # There are X occurrences of the digit 2.
For the digit 3: Count the occurrences of "3" after filling in the blanks. Example: # There are X occurrences of the digit 3.
For even digits: Count all even digits in the final sentence and confirm their total. Example: # There are X even digits.
For odd digits: Count all odd digits in the sentence and verify their total. Example: # There are X odd digits.
For prime numbers: Count the prime digits (2, 3, 5, 7) and confirm their total. Example: # There are X prime digits.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 20h

23 minutes later ....

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cotton 20h

sounds a bit like math gymnastics to me. :(

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 12h

Ain't it fun? :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @aliceandthewonderland 20h

In this sentence, the number of occurrences of the digit 0 is 3, of the digit 1 is 2, of the digit 2 is 2, of the digit 3 is 2, of even numbers is 5, of odd numbers is 4, and of prime numbers is 4.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 20h

Once, once, once, once, once, twice, twice.

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