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Re:The List of N Things by caffeine on Monday September 07, 2009 @08:17PM (#809979)
You can play the Zeno game with this.

The first half of the items is actually an article of n/2 items - so you think of n/4 in the first 5 minutes.

So you never actually think of an item.

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Re:The List of N Things by nitrogen on Monday September 07, 2009 @10:28PM (#810153)
Sci-fi quantum physics takes care of that. Eventually, two correlated ideas randomly pop into existence, and then it's just a race to see how many more ideas you can build on them within 5 minutes.
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