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
Brute force finds two solutions:
1 2 3 2 5 6 7
1 2 3 2 6 5 6
I think it's an impossible problem to solve!
What's wrong with either of my solutions?
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
I think zero is generally considered even as it can be divided by two without remainder.
Since the number zero is even, both are correct!
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.
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)
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Reasoned solution:
Let the blanks be filled in with a0, a1, a2, a3, aev, aod, and apr, respectively. Among these, the first four entries satisfy ai≥1 for i≤3, while the other three entries each satisfy a≥2. Thus, a0=1, a1≥2, and aod≥3. Given aev+aod=11, the values have opposite parity, so there’s at least one additional even and odd entry. Consequently, aev≥3 and aod≥4. This limits (aev,aod) to only five pairs: (3,8),(4,7),(5,6),(6,5), or (7,4). Each pair has exactly one prime number, hence apr≥3, but apr=3, as this “3” would add a fourth prime to the set, implying apr≥4.
Now, only a2 and a3 are potential placements for “1,” so a1≤4. If a1=4, there are three primes, including one from (aev,aod), but not apr. Setting apr=4 would then leave only three primes, and any other apr would be too large. Thus, a1≤3. Assume a1=3; then a3≥2. To assess feasibility, suppose a3=2, which implies a2≥2, creating a contradiction with a1=3. Thus, a3≥3. If a3≥4, apr=3 leads to more than three primes, so a3=3.
With a3=3, counting primes from (aev,aod) yields five primes. Setting apr=5 results in six primes, while apr=6 yields five primes, a contradiction. Therefore, a1=2, implying a2≥3 because a2=2 would introduce three “2”s. Since only a3=2 allows a third 2, we conclude a2=3 and a3=2.
Thus, we find six primes with apr=6 or apr=7, resulting in two possible solutions: (1,2,3,2,6,5,6) and (1,2,3,2,5,6,7).
This is the answer ChatGPT gave.
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 :)
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.)
23 minutes later ....
sounds a bit like math gymnastics to me. :(
Ain't it fun? :)
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.
Once, once, once, once, once, twice, twice.
😁
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