The word ton.Quote:
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The word ton.Quote:
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He's ba-aack! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Deity
3 pts.
Remember when a bar of plain milk chocolate was scored to allow you to break it evenly into smaller pieces?
What is the smallest number of breaks needed to divide a 4 by 8 chocolate bar into single squares, where each break splits any one of the pieces along an original horizontal or vertical line of the bar?
Your answer should explain why your number is the smallest possible.
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The answer is 31.
In fact, every allowed way of the breaking the chocolate bar into single squares will take 31 breaks. This is because each break you make increases the number of pieces you have by exactly 1. For example, you start with 1 piece and after your first break you have 2 pieces no matter what break you choose to make. Similarly, after two breaks, you have three pieces, and after three breaks, four pieces. Since you end with 32 pieces (namely the 32 single squares in the bar), you must have made exactly 31 breaks.
31. It doesn't matter which way you do it. 3 breaks longways and 28 sideways, or 7 breaks sideways and 24 breaks longways.Quote:
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One, using a sledgehammer. :thumbs:Quote:
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"Blackjack!"
Explain the relevancy of this time-limited comment.
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Adept's postcount at time of writing was 10101, which is 21 in binary.
or...
Using adept's current post count of 10101 and splitting the numbers out to 10, 10 and 1, they total 21, which is the card value of a Blackjack.
21. The number of cuts that would be used to solve puzzle #249. :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
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if you make 1 cut you get two pieces of chocolate, the 2nd cut give you 3 parts, the 3rd 4 part, etc
so the number of cuts needed is the numbers of squares (4x8=32) minus 1
so 31 cuts are needed
Cards used to be all black because they didn't have red ink. When someone got an ace and a black jack (for 21) everyone yelled "BlackJack !", and that is the "story" of Blackjack.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
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they used to (or maybe still do) pay extra to someone who would get as his first two cards the ace of spade and the jack of spade
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Originally Posted by edball
Correct for 3. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
Hint for 250: It is no longer true now.
Using your post count of 10101 and splitting the numbers out to 10, 10 and 1, they total 21, which is the card value of a Blackjack.Quote:
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Unfortunately, the clue still leave me clueless. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
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Originally Posted by Deity
This is why you lead this game. :p
3 to you, even though I was hoping for a binary interpretation.
Spork gets a bonus point for getting "21" in the first place.
I almost went for the binary too. :DQuote:
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