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UNBELIEVABLE MATH PROBLEM

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TXHokie

Platinum Member
Nov 16, 1999
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Here's a short version:

Pick a number and enter
Add 1
Subtract 1
Look familiar? ZOMG!!! Amazing

You're gonna have to do a lot better than that to amaze the ATOT crowd.
 

dullard

Elite Member
May 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: TXHokie
Here's a short version:

Pick a number and enter
Add 1
Subtract 1
Look familiar? ZOMG!!! Amazing

You're gonna have to do a lot better than that to amaze the ATOT crowd.
Hmm, I seem to remember that somewhere. Oh yeah, I've been reposted so many times in this thread.
Originally posted by: dullard
Try this: Choose a number. Add one. Subtract one. Surprize!
 

xSauronx

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Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
So the math gives you your phone number after you give it the numbers of your phone number? Amazing. :confused:

makes you wonder why someone bothered taking the time to come up with it

or why someone who didnt found it in an email and bothered posting it here
 

glenn1

Lifer
Sep 6, 2000
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quote:

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Originally posted by: Armitage
xxx-yyyy

xxx*80
xxx*80 + 1
(xxx*80 + 1)*250
(xxx*80 + 1)*250 + yyyy
(xxx*80 + 1)*250 + yyyy + yyyy
(xxx*80 + 1)*250 + yyyy + yyyy - 250
((xxx*80 + 1)*250 + yyyy + yyyy - 250)/2
(xxx*80*250 + 250 + 2*yyyy - 250)/2
(xxx*80*250 + 2*yyyy)/2
(xxx*40*250 + yyyy)
xxx*10000 + yyyy
xxx0000 + yyyy
xxxyyyy

Amazing!

meh - get interupted in the middle of a post and dullard steals the show
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