| 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! |
| 11. |
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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. |