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The Best Sentence

Tips: 5.00 INK Postby dealing with it on Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:28 pm

“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words?“ -Richard Feynman

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Re: The Best Sentence

Tips: 1.50 INK Postby Joseph_Bennett on Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:39 pm

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Re: The Best Sentence

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"The candles flickered, the sheets were still, but all the energy in the room surrounded Roman and Kenzie; Kenzie stepped forth and gently touched Roman's arm; h suddenly felt weak in his legs and trembled and fell as if his Achilles heel had been struck by a blade, but all it was was simply a woman's touch."-Austin Bowers

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Re: The Best Sentence

Tips: 0.25 INK Postby LawOfTheLand on Thu Aug 27, 2020 3:54 pm

This is really a question of maximizing a statement's information density, which is explored here: link

It turns out that even the language in which the statement is expressed can affect its efficiency.
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Re: The Best Sentence

Tips: 0.00 INK Postby Sepokku on Sat Feb 27, 2021 12:23 pm

Yeah like Law said, obviously certain languages are more information-dense than others.

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Tips: 0.00 INK Postby lostamongtrees on Mon Apr 12, 2021 2:20 pm

"No" - universal in meaning and usually monosyllabic, a complete sentence
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Re: The Best Sentence

Tips: 0.25 INK Postby VindicatedPurpose on Fri May 13, 2022 7:53 pm

Feels like maybe you should change this into a "Good Sentences" thread, and post it in the forum games.
Like a stranger on a grate, or a skylark, or a taper, flying ever upward and knowing of love's satiety. Our dreams beyond the Sun and into the expanse of Night doth sound a quiet hymn.

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Re: The Best Sentence

Tips: 0.25 INK Postby dealing with it on Thu May 19, 2022 5:03 pm

Good idea. I did it.

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