[Fwd: Letters F (Not Piano}]

John Ross piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:23:14 -0300


Carl Root wrote:
> 
> John Ross wrote:
> > Read the following sentence and count the F's.
> >          FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
> >          SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
> >          IC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
> >          EXPERIENCE OF MANY YEARS.
> 
>  By my analysis, the answer is: seven.
> 
> I will defer to John to give the logic behind the solution when he sees
> fit.  However, I can't resist telling you that I came up with four
> different answers before I settled on seven.
> 
> Carl
Sorry, I misread the question.
I think the reason they are missed is, most people are looking for a
trick. They jump ahead to the hyphens, and of is pronounced ov.
Regards,
John M. Ross



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