perlmeditation MeowChow I believe this first appeared in Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas. Fill in the blanks below with numbers that would make the following sentence true: <p> <i>The number of 0s in this sentence is _, of 1s is _, of 2s is _, of 3s is _, of 4s is _, of 5s is _, of 6s is _, of 7s is _, of 8s is _, and of 9s is _.</i> <p> There are two solutions. Enjoy :) <p> <b>Update</b>: As [dws] points out, I meant <i>numeric</i> numbers, as in non-zero-padded positive integers, or <code>/^[1-9]\d*$/</code> for the regexpically inclined. I'll leave it to [dws] to enumerate the remainder of the class of solutions for which words are permissable in the answer. :p <pre> <a href="/index.pl?node=MeowChow"> MeowChow </a> s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print</pre>