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but would it contain itself ?

• kortex 3y ago
  Obviously. It'd be one of the tables known to Harvard. Just leave enough room for the ones to be discovered.
  • glompers 3y ago
    Every discovered table would contain items known to the state of California to be oncogenic.
  • nealabq 3y ago
    This'd make a nice lyric. If only "Harvard" rhymed with "discovered".
    • SAI_Peregrinus 3y ago
      With the right accent, they rhyme.
  • scubbo 3y ago
    > one of the tables known to Harvard This has the cadence of a reference, but Google didn't help me. Am I missing something?
    • hangsi 3y ago
      It's from The Elements, by Tom Lehrer (the final lyric of the song). https://youtu.be/qyNkrlwKs7c https://youtu.be/qyNkrlwKs7c
      • scubbo 3y ago
        Thank you!
• nealabq 3y ago
  you're suggesting a periodic table of all periodic tables that do not contain themselves. sounds doable.
• LeonB 3y ago
  If it is a periodic table of all periodic tables then yes it would contain itself. Obviously. If it was a periodic table of all periodic tables except those that contain itself then it would only contain itself if it does not contain itself, I mean it would not contain itself if it does contain itself, I mean, goddam it Bertrand Russell, how did you find me here? I signed up to Hacker News hoping to escape you once and for all! -Gottlob Frege