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18 Dec 2008, 4:07 pm

I believe this is the appropriate forum to post this in. It's math related, so it should make all of you math buffs weep too.

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WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL???
1) Pick your Favorite number between 1-9
2) Multiply by 3 then
3) Add 3, then again Multiply by 3 (I'll wait while you get the calculator ..............
4) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number....
5) Add the digits together










Using that number, see who your ROLE MODEL is from the list below :
1. Albert Einstein
2. Nelson Mandela
3. George W. Bush
4. Bret Favre

5. Bill Gates
6. Gandhi
7. Brad Pitt
8. Abraham Lincoln
9. <insert your name here>
10. Barack Obama


A little part of me died inside. :cry:


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18 Dec 2008, 4:13 pm

9 here...hey, who said narcissism ? :wink:



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18 Dec 2008, 4:40 pm

I know the trick behind this one... but I won't say it...



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18 Dec 2008, 4:50 pm

So...I am ny own role model? Eww, I hate me.


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18 Dec 2008, 4:53 pm

My role model is a mixture of Albert Einstein and Nelson Mandela :P
Nobody ever said a whole number...


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WHO IS YOUR ROLE MODEL???
1) Pick your Favorite number between 1-9

8/5

2) Multiply by 3 then

4 4/5

3) Add 3, then again Multiply by 3 (I'll wait while you get the calculator ..............

23 2/5

4) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number....
5) Add the digits together

(1+1+7)/5

1 4/5



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18 Dec 2008, 4:59 pm

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3) Add 3, then again Multiply by 3 (I'll wait while you get the calculator ..............


This line made me die a little inside too. Using a calculator for multiples of three! Where the answer cannot be more than 2 digits?

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4) You'll get a 2 or 3 digit number....


and this finished me off. It CANNOT be three digits.

I'm not even that good at math, but even I smell the stupid here. No mister author, I'll wait while YOU get a calculator.

And then my dead cooling corpse threw up(but just a little) at the unavoidably corny results.

Is this a good example of how NTs are unwilling to be analytical? To be duped?


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18 Dec 2008, 5:44 pm

Moop wrote:
My role model is a mixture of Albert Einstein and Nelson Mandela :P
Nobody ever said a whole number...

I always use pi when given something like this. It didn't turn out very cleanly, though.


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18 Dec 2008, 6:21 pm

I got Bill Gates.

I used this number 1.61803


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18 Dec 2008, 6:23 pm

If you use a non-repeating non-terminating decimal, isn't your result infinity?


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18 Dec 2008, 6:27 pm

I got myself. I knew I was awesome, I just didn't realize how much! :wink:


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18 Dec 2008, 7:26 pm

If you think that's depressing, I once accidently said something quite rude beginning and ending in f a little too loudly during a university electronics lecture when we were asked to take out our calculators so we could multiply 32 by 4. It was an undergraduate degree module in electronics! I still can't believe it.



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18 Dec 2008, 8:04 pm

oddbod wrote:
If you think that's depressing, I once accidently said something quite rude beginning and ending in f a little too loudly during a university electronics lecture when we were asked to take out our calculators so we could multiply 32 by 4. It was an undergraduate degree module in electronics! I still can't believe it.


Isnt it like, uh.. 127 or 129 or something? I just dont have my calculator handy. Can I still pass?


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18 Dec 2008, 10:19 pm

I got myself too...;) All Hail Me!...;)

32*4 is 128. Who needs a calculator?...;)



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19 Dec 2008, 12:57 am

pakled wrote:
I got myself too...;) All Hail Me!...;)


:hail:


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19 Dec 2008, 1:12 am

Just in case you want the mathematics (arithmetic, actually).

The instruction should be to pick a whole number (integer) ... that gets rid of the fraction and irrational number freaks.

The sequence of operations has the same effect as adding 1 and multiplying by 9.

This produces a multipe of 9 between 18 and 90 inclusive. It can't be a 3 digit number.

The test for divisibility by 9 (of any number) is to add the digits of that number, and if the result is divisible by 9 so was the original number.

Adding the digits of 18, 27, 36, etc ALWAYS produces a 9.

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19 Dec 2008, 1:15 am

pakled wrote:
I got myself too...;) All Hail Me!...;)

32*4 is 128. Who needs a calculator?...;)


How the heck do you do that? Wow!


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