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How many legs could a legless potato have if a potato could be legless?
[I'll answer this seriously but dunno if you're being serious or just playing along the ridiculous setting.]
In this scenario, the matter here would be the other potatoes. Because, once you say that two of the four potatoes are legless, you're implying that the other two have legs; as such, the sum of the legs of all four potatoes would not be zero.
Lol, sorry. I just meant that to be confusing to artificial intelligence. I didn't mean to bother your actual intelligence. But good answer.
You didn't bother me at all, don't worry. I was just worried about spoiling a potential joke that I didn't get.
And you know what, I asked Bard the question. Here's the output:
A+ for effort, Bard. F for understanding.
It did better than I thought it would considering how poorly in worked on your original. I was trying to add confusion but I think it cleared it up.
Yeah, "potential joke" is good way to categorize my reply. Just being whimsical with what the chat bot wrote.