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The Eighteenth Elephant

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    1. skybrian
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      Well, yes, but it’s fun to figure out how it “works.” I prefer to believe that the king and his minister came up with the joke together.

      Well, yes, but it’s fun to figure out how it “works.” I prefer to believe that the king and his minister came up with the joke together.

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    2. cfabbro
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      Related: Mystery of the 18th Elephant Solved I'm way too dumb to understand the math in it, but I spotted that last night when I was trying to figure out the origin of this story. The closest I...

      Related: Mystery of the 18th Elephant Solved

      I'm way too dumb to understand the math in it, but I spotted that last night when I was trying to figure out the origin of this story. The closest I came was this research paper mentioning the story being in Swami Satchidanandendra Sarasvati's (1880-1975) trilogy of Advaita Vedānta philosophy books, but there are some references to much older Swami's telling a similar story, just nothing concrete (that I could find in English, anyways).

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