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Bingo! Have you ever read the book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat"? Interesting read. No dunce hat for you!!
I'm intersted in just about anything you want to post, everything I have read by you so far has been well worth my time. Domo arigato Mr. Roboto | ||||
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Jayne, Email me at clmi9901@msn.com and I will then give you the puzzle as it is and not to bore the rest of the board. Chapter 31: Your barracks looked very similar to ours, although I lived in Vietnamese-built structures and got to stay for a night or so in wooden barracks. I am convinced that housing prices in the U. S. went up due to the thousands of board feet of lumber shipped to Viet Nam for barracks, PX's, etc. | ||||
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Any number multiplied by 9, when adding the digits of the product, will always equal 9, e.g. 9 X 3=27, 2+7=9. 9 X 135=1215, 1+2+1+5=9 9 X 5498=49482, 4+9+4+8+2=27, 2+7=9 etc, ad infinitum... | ||||
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Yes, I agree. This was a bit different. Perhaps I should just post it as it is not too long. Some may have some fun with it and others to explain it to me. Your Age Buy Chocolate Math 1. Pick the number of time a week that you would like to have chocolate. 2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold) 3. Add 5 4. Mulitply by 50--we'll wait until you get the calculator 5. If you haven't had your birthday this year add 1756...if you haven't, add 1755 6. Now subtrazct the four digit year you were born You should a three digit number The first didgit is your original number, i.e., how many times you want chocolate The next two numbers are your AGE! This is the only year (2006) it will ever work. So there you have it. What is the secret? | ||||
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Good trick, biplane 1. Braling II and Jayne, I gave your concepts to some technical people at work and they were still laughing and playing with it when I left. I think you made their day. | ||||
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I endeavor to give satisfaction, sir. | ||||
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Well the one I found, I found while in a higher math coma brought on by a 10 hour proof. Just by playing with numbers in my head. I showed to to the math chair at my school, and he looked at me like a was retarded. Shrug. Needless to say I look forwrd to grad school next fall, Kalabi-Yau manifolds, Yay! | ||||
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Jayne, et. al., no one has answered my questions as to how the problem that I posted works so that the numbers come in correctly no matter what you put in. | ||||
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Biplane, it has to do with the numbers adding up to 2006...try putting zero in for the chocolate-per-week... | ||||
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Sorry biplane, I really haven't had a chance to go through it yet, two weeks left to graduation and all. If you can bear with me, I promise to go through it today. Thanks for posting it, be back with an answer. | ||||
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No problem. I am a patient person. If you want to hear a good one. I have always enjoyed math, but it was difficult for me. I took Trig my senior year in high school and got an F the first term, and Ds all the rest. So when I went into the service and onto Officers Candidate School, what did I get but Artillery and all that is is Math. Trig tables, etc. And, somehow, I got through it all. Later in the Army reserves, I was in the Engineer Corps and even got to be comfortable with Calculus. | ||||
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As to math affinity, or lack thereof, There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't! | ||||
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Br2, Nice! You probably remember when "new math" was the way of the future! (Where is my slide rule when I need it?) They say the first Mars probe crashed due to a mix up in measurements, Imperial vs. Metric. The decelerating rockets were incorrectly calibrated. Thus, the need for the 2nd Expedition. (...or was it the doings of the Ancients?) On my classroom wall: Cartoon ~ two youth standing outside of a school, leaning against a wall. Both with books under arm, one boy is looking at a paper in the hands of the other. It has the heading "Spelling Test" on the top of it. The caption for the clip has been spoken by the youth holding the test paper, "Boy, am I in trubbal!" | ||||
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THAT reminds me of a great Mark O'Donnell cartoon that appeared in Spy many years ago. In it, an astonished and artsy-looking translator is asking a beleaguered author, “Do you not be happy with me as the translator of the books of you?” | ||||
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