Maths Q. for [FIRST NAME GOES HERE]: The Dog Scratched Itself? How many dogs are there?
Hello Reader Did you know that a binary bug has existed in western arithmetic for the past 451 years? My research revealed exactly how this happened. The bug is known as self reference. What's the problem? The four basic operations are binary, meaning you need two different numbers, one on each side of a symbol, like 3 × 4 or 1 + 2. OK, in February 1570 an English Haberdasher called Henry Billingsley inserted the self referential word 'itself' into his English translation of Euclid's...