Count the F's

**The riddler** · May29-09, 03:04 PM

This is cool

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

How many?

**Borek** · May29-09, 03:42 PM

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I see 6

**Dadface** · May29-09, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by The riddler

This is cool

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

How many?

Spoiler

obviously not 3.Could it be 23?

**The riddler** · May29-09, 03:52 PM

Read it agin, SLOWLY

**Dadface** · May29-09, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by The riddler

Read it agin, SLOWLY

Spoiler

Whoops I can't count.I make it 21

**swat4life** · May29-09, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by The riddler

This is cool

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

How many?

Count every " F" in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

How many?[/quote]

Spoiler

I count 1. This may be the old school knowledge of html in me but you have written "SPACE F" which translates in html to: " F"

The only place I see " F", i.e. "SPACE F"/" F" (underline=space) is on the first line after the "D", i.e.:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

**The riddler** · May30-09, 04:38 AM

Sorry swatforlife but i have no idea what you talking about.

Just read the text and tell me how many F's you see.

**Borek** · May30-09, 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by The riddler

Sorry swatforlife but i have no idea what you talking about.

Just read the text and tell me how many F's you see.

I must admit I like swatforlife answer. And you have just changed the question. F and " F" are different things.

**The riddler** · May30-09, 06:25 AM

yeah, swat4lifes anwser is quite clever.

**The riddler** · May30-09, 06:32 AM

Spoiler:

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The point of the text is that when most people read this text they only count 3 F's and they miss out the "ofs", also if you count all 6 F's you are supposed to be a genius.
I only counted 3

**Dadface** · May30-09, 06:42 AM

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Yes I only counted three separate Fs as well but I saw each letter E as being made of two Fs one being upside down and rotated.

**Sorry!** · May30-09, 12:06 PM

At first I counted 6 but then i noticed that you had put a space " F" in your OP so I thought that had somethign to do with it lol. now reading the answers I can see that the correct answer was 6

**swat4life** · May30-09, 02:42 PM

Originally Posted by The riddler

Spoiler:

Spoiler

The point of the text is that when most people read this text they only count 3 F's and they miss out the "ofs", also if you count all 6 F's you are supposed to be a genius.
I only counted 3

Originally Posted by The riddler

yeah, swat4lifes anwser is quite clever.

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Haha - tx. I'm either a genius or a "5 under par" retard, lol.

Actually, to be cheeky, in terms of a "correct" answer, I guess it depends on what one is "reading" and a clear statement of the assumptions necessary for the answer to be deemed "correct".

Are you reading what's obvious (words) or more subtle - in this case binary code.

For instance, "F", " F" and "OF" are all different numerically/mathematically i.e binary code.

Specifically in terms of the binary code:

"F" - is 01000110
" F" -is 00100000 01000110
"OF" -is 01001111 01000110

so "OF" and " F" and "F" all mean something different. Actually, there's one more variation I've just noticed as well....

The question says:
Count every: " F"

and in binary code ' " F" ' [i.e. (quote)+(space)+(F)+(quote)] is:
00100010 00100000 01000110 00100010

So I guess it's all open to interpretation, huh?

fun binary code encoder --> www. theproblemsite. com/codes/binary.asp

quick edit/update:
In this last answer, I assumed that a space, was used to denote unique ideas/variables, so the command was to count everything that appeared after the phrase "count every". This is a reasonable assumption as we don't normally write something like

Iwanttogotothestore. We separate unique ideas/variables like:

I want to go to the store. So everything that appeared after "count every" was counted -", SPACE, F, "
In my first answer, I assumed that the variable(s) in question were defined by everything inside of the quotes i.e. "SPACE F"/" F"

I'm getting the feeling I'm spending far to much time around certain kinds of forums and tech related individuals, lol

**The riddler** · May30-09, 03:22 PM

You might be spending a bit to much time with that tech stuff, but at least it seems your not half bad at it.

**kittenwood** · May31-09, 11:09 PM

lol i originally thought 1 because you had a space before F, but then figured it was a typo

and if yoou count all 6, u arent a genius. i got them all, and im not a genius

**Dadface** · Jun1-09, 04:17 AM

[QUOTE

and if yoou count all 6, u arent a genius. i got them all, and im not a genius[/quote]

Don't say that ,you will upset Borek