sorry about that

This is not to solve the puzzle, but just so we are talking about the same matter.

Dolphin:
"E.g. if you have two observations: (5,5,5,5) and (5,5,5,5) you might add a 6 to the first one so you get (5,5,5,5,6). But if you already had somewhere a (5,5,5,5,6) then you have just gone and muddled your supposedly newly-uniquely identified observation with one of your others."

Could you explain it with U=unknown
and the sequence as U1-1, U2-1, U3-1, U4-1
where the first number tells the sequence and
the number after the hyphen tells which version
of the sequence we mean?

For example, if you add another unknown to U2-1, it will aways be U2
which we could call U2a for (Unknown2 with added unknown)? The number after the U2a- would tell which generation of sequences we're now in.

And you could describe the new sequence after adding unknowns

AS IN the following example

First sequence
U1-1, U2-1, U3-1...

Add unknowns and show the new sequence:

U1a-2, U3a-2, U2a-2


If what I have just said seems incomplete to you, please tell me where.

Then I would understand better what you meant.

• Mike: from Dr. D's paper: - dolphin - September 28, 2002 - 07:36 UTC
• What Dr. D. wrote re: the puzzle at hand: - dolphin - September 28, 2002 - 07:43 UTC
• Mike: revealing comment from Dr. Dick: - dolphin - September 28, 2002 - 07:46 UTC
  • I understand that like news media grok the world! - occupant - September 28, 2002 - 15:18 UTC
• More revelations from Dr. Dick;'s posts: - dolphin - September 28, 2002 - 07:50 UTC