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Every time I count I get a different number of cats.
There are 9
If you also can't count.
Took me a while to spot #3 lmao
You're only technically correct!
There's a cat in the profile picture
Which ain't in the bed
But also the emoji for yet another at that rate.
Add the 2-3 hypothetical cats mentioned... 5?
You might have to practise counting
Hello I'm count Dracula.
Did it work?
EIGHT ahahaaaaah.
I count 8 pairs of ears.
I count 15 eyes
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kits
Kits, cats, sacks, and wives
How many were going to St. Ives?
Fuck bud you lose me after the man.
It's a trick question; the answer is 1, the person going to St. Ives. 2,801 are going the other way.
But if you're only counting the
Wouldn't that be zero?
Or is that just a distraction in the riddle?
It's just a reiteration of some of the elements of the riddle rather than a comprehensive list.
Maybe they are an uncountable set