Posted on 02/08/2010 4:29:26 PM PST by navysealdad
Um ... Stravinsky.
Um ... Stravinsky.
bout a minute. I must be average geenyus.
It was + that was misused. However, if you said
2 v 3 = 10 ... probably nobody would get it!
Or worse ... f(2,3) = 10
Anyway, it is definitely a math problem, but the phony + did slow me down, I was thinking it might be one of those "count the letters" things, or something.
( It took me exactly 1:59 :-)
Look just at the pattern of the numbers on the right side of the “=” sign as they relate to each other. Just because numbers are used in a sequencing problem doesn’t make it a valid math problem. The “=” sign was not correct in any of the equations.
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That's exactly right.
It doesn't matter how bad, incompetent, or deliberately obtuse, or fraudulent someone is at math; 9 + 7 is still 16.
It's a lot like global warming science in that regard.
First I don't know how to make the superscript 3, so my apologies for not copying your statement exactly. Now to be more accurate, it is 5.24148279 cubed minus 0.000000130404574283121639
;<);<)
That proves that there is no answer to anything. Cf. Wittgenstein ... the rascal.
"His friend Friedrich Waismann, who had spent much of the 1930s unsuccessfully attempting to co-author a book with Wittgenstein, eventually accused him of "complete obscurantism" ...
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
That was my first thought too...I was looking at the sequence and came up with 112.
Oh, and if nobody has mentioned it, the answer is one gross.
The answer is 42
(It’s always 42)
You did? I think we were meant for each other........
And to think that two astro-physicists met in the dark of night on a conservative website while trying to solve a complex mathmatical problem........
It must be Karma........
That’s gross.
The = sign was used in its usual sense, once you realize that the + sign was used in a generalized sense.
How about this one?
2 + 3 = 1
7 + 2 = 5
6 + 5 = 3
8 + 4 = 12
9 + 7 = ?????
Here, the + sign has the meaning it holds in a widely practiced mathematical usage.
Use of the "+" isn't justified in the problem.
If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
The answer is "four". A tail is not a leg, no matter what you call it.
Yep, astro-physicists, that’s the ticket. Wow...Karma...can’t wait to tell my husband. /sarcasm
Then slow down and do it right.....
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