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Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). The Problem: A man is told that he will… (more…)

Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). The Problem: An Ass is at equal points between… (more…)

Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). The Problem: A billionaire will give you £1 Million… (more…)

Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). This month we are moving onto a traditional Egyptian… (more…)

Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). The problem: If a man has a full head… (more…)

Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). The Problem: The Athenians preserved Theseus’ ship for posterity.… (more…)

Pedant’s Paradox About the series: Examining logic problems and paradoxes and dismantling them, because I am just that picky. Feel free to debate my answers. (Yes I am aware most of these have mathematical answers, but they’re dressed  in real-world examples so they can be looked at with real world logic). The problem: If the chance of someone in the… (more…)

To replace the videos, which I proved to be dreadful at keeping up with, I’m starting a new series for 2015. Pedants Paradox was inspired by a christmas gift that had me tearing my hair out: a book of paradoxes. The problem is that most of them aren’t paradoxes, those that are are presented badly, and a statistician of my… (more…)