In the country of logic, there was a small town in which every man was a perfect logician. This town had some strange customs, first of all, married men never knew or were told if their wives were cheating on them. It was absolutely forbidden to tell them, and men never found out by accident.
Conversely, if a wife was cheating on her husband, ever other man in the town knew about it, immediately. No one ever forgot or somehow didn’t learn of it.
Another strange custom in this town was that if a man were to know that his wife was cheating on him. He must that night take her to the square, in the middle of the town, and at the stroke of midnight, shoot her. All men knew this, and all would do it.
Now, on one fateful day, the mayor of this town called the whole population together, and sorrowfully proclaimed that it had come to his attention that there was at least one women cheating on her husband. He did not say who.
In actuality, there were 40 women cheating on their husbands.
So, the question is what (if anything) happened? And when?
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In the country of logic, there was a small town in which every man was a perfect logician. This town had some strange customs, first of all, married men never knew or were told if their wives were cheating on them. It was absolutely forbidden to tell them, and men never found out by accident.
Conversely, if a wife was cheating on her husband, ever other man in the town knew about it, immediately. No one ever forgot or somehow didn’t learn of it.
Another strange custom in this town was that if a man were to know that his wife was cheating on him. He must that night take her to the square, in the middle of the town, and at the stroke of midnight, shoot her. All men knew this, and all would do it.
Now, on one fateful day, the mayor of this town called the whole population together, and sorrowfully proclaimed that it had come to his attention that there was at least one women cheating on her husband. He did not say who.
In actuality, there were 40 women cheating on their husbands.
So, the question is what (if anything) happened? And when?
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