45 pounds. 5 pounds a letter.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
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45 pounds. 5 pounds a letter.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
I'm going to give that to you, even though it's the wrong currency. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mindwarp
3 points.
Ah.
I see you changed it juuuuust before I hit the reply button. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
Art Conn tore one paper match out of a matchfolder, threw it in the air, and noticed that it landed on its side.
Art continued to pick up the same match, toss it in the air, and each time the match landed on its side. Hardy Pyle, who was standing nearby, could no longer contain his curiosity so he walked over and asked Art what he was doing. Art explained that 26 out of 26 times, the match landed on its side.
Hardy looked at Art and exclaimed, "Of course it lands on its side; a regular paper match always will." Art smiled and said "Hardy, I'll bet you 100 pounds that if I give you this match and you throw it in the air, it will land on its edge."
Would this be a good bet for Hardy to take?
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Hardy shouldn't take the bet. When Art handed Hardy the match, he bent it. When a paper match is bent it will always land on its edge and when it's straight it will always land on its side.
It's my sharklike reflexes.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
yes it would be a good bet. the side is a lot wider than the edge even if it were to land on its edge it would actually fall over to its sideQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Mindwarp
This is the only question I remember from actually playing the game. Alas, the chivalric code bars me from answering although I know the answer. Darn.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
No, it doesn't. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Mindwarp
Cool. No, it's a bad bet to take because Art would bend the match before giving it to Hardy ensuring that it falls on its edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
No, Art Conn (wonder if he's a relative?) will bend the match which will make it land on it's edge.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Got it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mindwarp
3.
Dang it, will you stop doing that!!!! :flame: :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mindwarp
Couple minutes late again... sorry.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by RIOT
That's twice today that's happened... :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Better luck tomorrow, dude.
What?? No more questions?? I think you should post more just in case there are a few other thread deletions later today... I'm only only showing that you have 9,995 posts right now...Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Need more questions... Addicted to Mindtrap... AHHHHHHH!! :devil:
Maybe you have seen this before...
FORTY
+ TEN
+ TEN
-------
.SIXTY
If each letter represents a digit and all ten digits are to be included in the above equation.
Can you find the arrangement of digits that would satisfy the equation? (TEN does not mean T x E x N. It represents the places the digits take)
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29786
+ 850
+ 850
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31486
39687Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
+ 850
+ 850
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41387
whew...
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Originally Posted by RIOT
Wow.
I'm giving you 5 for that one, because it works but wasn't the expected answer. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
Question is still open for the other possibility.
40Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
10
10
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60 :devil:
Come on now. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by RIOT
Previous question is still open.
One afternoon, a retired air force pilot and his family were driving through Texas on a vacation. They pass a road sign. One of the children remarks on the fact that the sign is named after a newspaper comic.
After about five minutes, they pass another sign, which reads, "Golf Road". As soon as they pass it, the man turns to his wife and says he knows what the next sign will say, and that he'll bet her twenty dollars that he's right. She agrees, and they drive on. After passing the next road sign, the wife finds that her husband is right, and hands him twenty dollars.
What did the last sign say and how did the man know?
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The key was that he was a retired air force pilot.
The military, and other organizations, use words to represent letters when talking via radio, etc, to avoid confusion of the many similar sounding letters.
The international standard for this is the NATO alphabet:
Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey Xray Yankee Zulu The one for F is Foxtrot, which is the name of a comic in the paper. Golf is for G. The one for H is hotel, so, seeing the pattern of Foxtrot and Golf, he correctly guessed Hotel Road.
It said Hotel Road. Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel - it's all part of NATO's code for letters of the alphabet.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
The "retired air force pilot" part is the key. :)
That was fast!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobra X
3 points to the guy who can smell using his tongue.
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Originally Posted by a d e p t
29786
+ 850
+ 850
-------
31486
Riot doesnt have the digit 2 sorry
Crap... :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by SirGraystone
I didn't have an entry for you in the scores listing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cobra X
Was this the first time you got points in here?
I gave you 4, the bonus being for a "first score" in here. ;)
I concur: F and X had the same value in that solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by SirGraystone
Sorry RIOT.
3 points to SirGraystone.
Yeah, my first post in this thread. Never looked at it before today TBH. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Suuuuuuuuuure. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Cobra X
Welcome aboard anyhow.
Don't worry, this doesn't mean you have to wear the WOTPP thong now. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gif
Suppose that, somewhere in New Jersey, there is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms.
You arrive late one night and ask the front desk clerk if they have a vacancy. He replies that every room is occupied, however, he can arrange for you to get one. But how, you wonder, if there is no vacancy? The answer is simple: the clerk will simply ask the people in room 1 to move to room 2, those in room 2 to move to room 3, those in 3 to move to room 4, and so on. Since there is an infinite number of rooms, everyone will have a room to move into, and room 1 will be available for you.
Hotel Infinity is an amazing place, you think to yourself as you sign in. But just as the clerk is about to give you your key, an infinite number of people arrive for an APA convention. The clerk cleverly figured out how to get you a room, but can he accommodate an additional infinity of guests?
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Amazingly, he can. He just asks everyone to move again, but this time to the room number that is twice the number of their current room. In other words, you would move to room 2, the people in 2 would move to 4, those in 3 to 6, those in 4 to 8, and so on. This will leave all odd numbered rooms — an infinite number of them — vacant.
This paradox illustrates an unusual property of infinite sets. With finite sets, a (proper) subset will always contain fewer members than the entire set. A part is smaller than the whole. But with infinite sets that is not the case: one part of the set can be just as large as the whole. For example, there are as many even numbers as there are natural numbers, even though the natural numbers contain all the even numbers plus the odd ones as well. This can be seen by pairing the natural numbers with the even numbers to show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between the two sets:
1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
| | | | | |
2 4 6 8 10 12 ...
Likewise, even though only some numbers are perfect squares (1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ...), and the distance between each perfect square becomes greater and greater as we progress down the number line, there are as many perfect squares as there are natural numbers. For each natural number is the square root of exactly one perfect square. (This is sometimes known as Galileo's Paradox, as it was first pointed out by the famous Italian physicist and astronomer.)
A variation on hotel infinity results in an interesting Zeno-style paradox. Contrary to what might first be supposed, the hotel doesn't have to occupy an infinite space. Suppose the hotel has one room per story. If each room is half the height of the one below, then the entire structure will be only as tall as a two-story building. But if that's the case, then it should have a roof on top. And if it has a roof, then, as any reputable architect can point out, the other side of it ought to be the ceiling over some room. However, what room will that be, given that the hotel has an infinite number of them and therefore no top story?
Why not just have them go to the rooms that aren't taken yet ? Is there some premise that the guests have to start in room 1 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Alternatively, the actual answer to the question is yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Now THAT is a cheap way of getting a point and preventing someone else from claiming 3 for themselves! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by edball
Why, Thank You. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
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Originally Posted by edball
Very sneaky.
Deity would disapprove, I'm sure. :D
Who ? I thought you deleted inactive players. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Yes. He can simply request that each guest move to the room twice its number minus one (the people in room 2 move to room 3, 3 to 5, 4 to 7, 5 to 11 etc.). This will leave all the even numbered rooms open. The set of all even numbers is also infinite even thought it seems it should be half of the set of whole numbers.Quote:
Originally Posted by a d e p t
Actually, I thought too hard. They can just move to each room x2 and leave all the odd rooms open.