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1. Please read this sentence.
2. FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
3. SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
4. IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
5. THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
6. Count the F's.
7. How many did you find?
8. To see the answer, scroll down the page until it appears.
9. Dave
10. PS: Thanks to Don Brown for forwarding this. It's a great puzzle!
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12. ***Solution
13. There are six F's in the sentence.
14. There is no catch.
15. I found three. I went back and counted and recounted, and I was sure there were just three. So I wrote a script to see what was going on. It said there are six! Mystifying.
16. Then I improved the script to show me where the F's were.

17. 
18. ct = 0;
19. s = "FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-SULT
20. OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-IC STUDY COMBINED
21. WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.";
22. for i = 1 to sizeof (s) { (2)
23. dialog.alert (ct)
24. 
25. Right on, there is no catch.
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