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nAi.PrOtOsS
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Canada784 Posts
February 22 2009 16:22 GMT
#181
It appears that the top number on the left by its self is larger then the sum of all the numbers on the right. So left side.
Murlox
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France1699 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-22 17:07:35
February 22 2009 17:03 GMT
#182
[image loading]


Same value.

They omitted the "0" in an effort to make it clearer for non mathematicians, resulting in making it stupid for mathematicians though.


Edit :

Woot 500 !


[image loading]
Resistance ain't futile
reachfortherings
Profile Joined January 2009
63 Posts
February 22 2009 18:44 GMT
#183
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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
February 22 2009 19:22 GMT
#184
On February 23 2009 02:03 Murlox wrote:
[image loading]


Same value.

They omitted the "0" in an effort to make it clearer for non mathematicians, resulting in making it stupid for mathematicians though.





well then it's a misleading lie because that isn't how numbers work for anyone
Cpt Obvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany3073 Posts
February 22 2009 20:13 GMT
#185
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating. When will people stop taking maths as a game and start taking it seriously? Those guys make a failing grade school student seem smart...
Nobody ever reads signatures of people like me, do they?
Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
February 22 2009 20:22 GMT
#186
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating. When will people stop taking maths as a game and start taking it seriously? Those guys make a failing grade school student seem smart...


Don't you think that has occurred to all of us already? We're saying it's equal only if the numbers on the right side have invisible 0's added to the end.
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
February 22 2009 20:29 GMT
#187
On February 23 2009 05:22 Juicyfruit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating. When will people stop taking maths as a game and start taking it seriously? Those guys make a failing grade school student seem smart...


Don't you think that has occurred to all of us already? We're saying it's equal only if the numbers on the right side have invisible 0's added to the end.



That's like saying 1 = 10 because there's an invisible zero behind the 1
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Juicyfruit
Profile Joined May 2008
Canada5484 Posts
February 22 2009 20:38 GMT
#188
On February 23 2009 05:29 FragKrag wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2009 05:22 Juicyfruit wrote:
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating. When will people stop taking maths as a game and start taking it seriously? Those guys make a failing grade school student seem smart...


Don't you think that has occurred to all of us already? We're saying it's equal only if the numbers on the right side have invisible 0's added to the end.



That's like saying 1 = 10 because there's an invisible zero behind the 1


The invisible 0's are so that the numbers line up properly the way they are written down. Staggering the digits like that isn't exactly conventional, so how the hell am I suppose to interpret the intention of that?
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
February 22 2009 20:46 GMT
#189
On February 23 2009 05:38 Juicyfruit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2009 05:29 FragKrag wrote:
On February 23 2009 05:22 Juicyfruit wrote:
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating. When will people stop taking maths as a game and start taking it seriously? Those guys make a failing grade school student seem smart...


Don't you think that has occurred to all of us already? We're saying it's equal only if the numbers on the right side have invisible 0's added to the end.



That's like saying 1 = 10 because there's an invisible zero behind the 1


The invisible 0's are so that the numbers line up properly the way they are written down. Staggering the digits like that isn't exactly conventional, so how the hell am I suppose to interpret the intention of that?


You don't, you call whoever made it a fucking retard, and leave.
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
February 22 2009 20:54 GMT
#190
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating.

Thank you, Captain Obv- oh, it is you, welcome back.
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Deleted User 30223
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
3104 Posts
February 22 2009 21:14 GMT
#191
On February 23 2009 05:54 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating.

Thank you, Captain Obv- oh, it is you, welcome back.


lolol. was gonna say the exact same thing
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
February 22 2009 21:21 GMT
#192
lol wtf what a dumb question
obviously left is larger. It's not the responsibility of the reader to interpret, it's the responsibility of the writer to be clear, and as written it's pretty clear that the left side sum is significantly bigger than the right side sum
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
Cpt Obvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany3073 Posts
February 22 2009 21:43 GMT
#193
Sonuvbob quoted me, my mission here is done. Farewell, once again.
Nobody ever reads signatures of people like me, do they?
Hittegods
Profile Joined April 2007
Stockholm4641 Posts
February 22 2009 21:57 GMT
#194
On February 23 2009 05:54 SonuvBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 23 2009 05:13 Cpt Obvious wrote:
wtf? those sums are so not the same value...

each number apart from the 1 is bigger on the left side. If I take a bunch of numbers where every single one is bigger than the corresponding number on the other side, and add them up, I know the left sum will be bigger without even calculating.

Thank you, Captain Obv- oh, it is you, welcome back.

God I love you.
This neo violence, pure self defiance
terr13
Profile Joined April 2007
United States298 Posts
February 22 2009 22:37 GMT
#195
I think it is meant to be followed by 0's, using just a bit of common sense. There is no way that riddle would ask you that question otherwise, and if you complain about it, you should complain about the other riddles as well. They even lined up all the digits for you like it's supposed to be added. The answer should be that they are the same, since 9 1's is the same as 1 9.
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
February 22 2009 23:19 GMT
#196
On February 23 2009 07:37 terr13 wrote:
I think it is meant to be followed by 0's, using just a bit of common sense. There is no way that riddle would ask you that question otherwise, and if you complain about it, you should complain about the other riddles as well. They even lined up all the digits for you like it's supposed to be added. The answer should be that they are the same, since 9 1's is the same as 1 9.


Some of these riddles have been pretty strange.
Why can't it just be their way of tricking you?
No I'm never serious.
nosliw
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2716 Posts
February 24 2009 18:57 GMT
#197
On February 21 2009 09:33 CharlieMurphy wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On February 21 2009 09:30 Pr0sPeCt wrote:
9 minutes


correct.

use 4 cuts to cut log into 5 pieces, use 5th cut to cut horizontally, turns 5 into 10

Q2: Duncan Drivel was asked how many ducks he had. "well," he said. "they just walked down the path and I didn't actually count them, but I remember one duck in front of two ducks, another duck behind two ducks and another duck between two ducks." how many ducks does Duncan have?


AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
February 25 2009 08:51 GMT
#198
[image loading]


Guys... I think you missed the "point" of this riddle. When it asked to sum the numbers, you aren't supposed to assume that 987654321 is a number, it wants you to do 9+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1, so that's why the sums are supposed to be the same.

Yeah, it's stupid.
antiq
Profile Joined June 2008
Slovakia191 Posts
February 25 2009 23:10 GMT
#199
May I join in? This is not a riddle per se, but a mathematical problem my bro had to cope with in some obscure programming class.

Say .. Jimmy walks into the classroom and sees a set of numbers on the blackboard:

1,2,3,4,5, .. etc .. N

Now, he is a bit goofy, think Rainman, so he starts to play with the numbers:

He picks a number, say R - then adds together the first R numbers from the set in his head, deletes them and writes their sum at the end of the whole set (after the initial N).

(If there are no more R numbers in the set, he just takes all that are left)

And he decides to do this K-times .. so, what is the last number in the set now (the K-th number which he writes)?

If you have N=5 (that means 1,2,3,4,5); R=2, K=3, it's obvious, you get

1,2,3,4,5
3,4,5,3
5,3,7
7,8 -> so the answer is 8

But say you have a range of numbers 1-1^9 (1-billion) for N,R and K ...
How would you get the answer if the input was N=92312386, R=432765 and K=87397?

Write a computer program that does the whole procedure fast, yes.. but no, not really the hard way you would expect. The thing is, the numbers get too huge even for normal computers - and the limit for this program was set at 64MB used and 1sec time anyway.

Any mathematically gifted among the TL-netters? Btw, I don't know the answer and the number doesn't interest me that much, the interesting thing is the algorithm, how did you get the result (I don't know the algorithm either :3)
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
February 25 2009 23:27 GMT
#200
lol that last riddle I posted really got everyone arguing.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
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