Crazy Math Trick (Check It Out)!!!

[BGarrett7]

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This is exactly what I mean; you must have been picked on as a kid. Does it make you feel better about yourself to solve these simple problems and then make a stupid comment at the end? It was a cool trick to everyone else, and then you have to chime to make everyone feel stupid.

What? I'm sure everyone wanted to now how it worked, so I posted the mathematical solution to it. If I didn't do it, I'm sure someone else would, it's a pretty basic HS algebra function. And, no, I wasn't trying to make everyone else feel stupid in posting just how it works. If I was going to do that, I would have been all "OMG! You guys are such morons for not realizing just how simple this is! Have you even taken an algebra class!?" And did I do that? No. I said that I wasn't impressed by it, simply because of how simple it came out to be. No where in that was I rude to other posters or calling them simple-minded for not being able to figure it out. Plus, it's not like it is now suddenly rendered useless just because someone figured out the math side of it, everyone who wants to can still try it out and see if it works for them.

Do you seriously think that I, as an aspiring teacher, would actually enjoy making others feel stupid just because I showed them how something works? That's just slightly ridiculous, don't you think?

[mjb2124]

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Didn't seem too difficult to me.

I guess all those years of high level math for my Computer Science major paid off. Too bad this is one of the few times that part of my education paid off. Figures that it was for something unimportant and not something I'd need at work.

[heelsman22]

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This is exactly what I mean; you must have been picked on as a kid. Does it make you feel better about yourself to solve these simple problems and then make a stupid comment at the end? It was a cool trick to everyone else, and then you have to chime to make everyone feel stupid.

Way to go all-star!!!

Ouch. That was rough.

[dkgojackets]

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I know who ever came up with this should be our president.

I could make something like this in less than 5 minutes...Maybe Ill whip one up while campaigning

[The GIGGAS]

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It's hilarious what topics can cause arguments on these boards.

[BGarrett7]

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It's hilarious what topics can cause arguments on these boards.

It is, really.

[SportsTop]

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This is exactly what I mean; you must have been picked on as a kid. Does it make you feel better about yourself to solve these simple problems and then make a stupid comment at the end? It was a cool trick to everyone else, and then you have to chime to make everyone feel stupid.

Way to go all-star!!!

Can someone get him a glass of water for this....

[Wessinmouse]

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Eh, I'm not impressed.

All you have to do is take 10,000 times your first three digits and add the last four digits to it, and have some useless crap that cancels out.

The equation works out to this (x = first three digits, y = last four digits):

[250 * (80x + 1) + 2y - 250] / 2 = 10,000x + y

That simplifies to:

(20000x + 2y) / 2 = 10,000x + y

Which, obviously simplifies to the required:

10,000x + y = 10,000x + y

Yawn.

You could AT LEAST give credit to whichever of the websites you got the "solution" from, rather than pretending you worked the math.

[BGarrett7]

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You could AT LEAST give credit to whichever of the websites you got the "solution" from, rather than pretending you worked the math.

Uh, I did work the math. I probably still have the paper I wrote it on laying around here if you would like for me to scan and post it.

[SportsTop]

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Uh, I did work the math. I probably still have the paper I wrote it on laying around here if you would like for me to scan and post it.

You filthly liar! You stupid, dirty, internet math trick spoiling, no good liar.......

People are acting like that thing was rocket science. Take a math class or two and leave him alone.

[dkgojackets]

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You could AT LEAST give credit to whichever of the websites you got the "solution" from, rather than pretending you worked the math.

Are you out of middle school yet?

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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Take a math class or two and leave him alone.

I live in North Carolina, man! The only math we need to know is that 3 is Dale Sr., 8 is Junior, and 24 is the devil.

[SportsTop]

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I live in North Carolina, man! The only math we need to know is that 3 is Dale Sr., 8 is Junior, and 24 is the devil.

Don't you also have to be able to add the two nickels they give you for that radio gig of yours too?

[Acid]

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I live in North Carolina, man! The only math we need to know is that 3 is Dale Sr., 8 is Junior, and 24 is the devil.

[TJdaSportsGuy]

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Don't you also have to be able to add the two nickels they give you for that radio gig of yours too?

No.....they give'em to ya one at a time...