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Posted on 03/15/2005 6:56:37 PM PST by Indy Pendance
1. Grab a calculator (you won't be able to do this one in your head).
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code)
3. Multiply by 80.
4. Add 1.
5. Multiply by 250.
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number.
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
8. Subtract 250.
9. Divide number by 2.
Do you recognize the answer?
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KEYWORDS: funwithmath; howdtheydothat; jennyjenny; numberonthewall; numbertrick
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To: Indy Pendance
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posted on
03/15/2005 7:15:30 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: Constitution Day
Try your imagination next time.
Try not to get discouraged.
42
posted on
03/15/2005 7:15:56 PM PST
by
clyde asbury
(But as the wind changed direction, the crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive.)
To: phoenix0468
The next time a cashier asks for my phone number when I give her a check, I am going to put her through this whole process. LOL. Imagine the looks I'll get from the people waiting in line.
43
posted on
03/15/2005 7:16:44 PM PST
by
CitizenM
(An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Can I use the calculator on my computer??? No, PC calculators are much different than regular ones. Something about the bytes & CPU speed throws the sum all off.
44
posted on
03/15/2005 7:16:44 PM PST
by
usgator
To: Indy Pendance
Do you recognize the answer? Ummm, no. It looks like someone's phone #, but not mine.
45
posted on
03/15/2005 7:16:57 PM PST
by
Big Giant Head
(Barring all differences, they're identical.)
To: Indy Pendance
Number tricks like this are just an entertaining way of using algebra.
Let x = the first 3 digits in your phone number.
Let y = th elast 4 digits in your phone number.
Then the steps can be written algebraically as:
[250(80x + 1)+ y + y - 250]/2
Simplified:
[20000x + 250 + 2y - 250]/2
Simplified further(the +250 and the -250 cancel each other out):
[20000x + 2y]/2
Simplified again:
10000x + y
As a previous poster stated, 10000x + y is the heart of the trick. The rest of the steps are added only to make it look mysterious.
46
posted on
03/15/2005 7:17:01 PM PST
by
LibFreeOrDie
(How do you spell dynasty? P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S!)
To: Senator Pardek
Don't look now, Senator, but it appears your account has been suspended. :)
47
posted on
03/15/2005 7:17:14 PM PST
by
LNewman
To: usgator
OK, someone beat you to it and the joke's over. But thanks for playing anyway! :D
48
posted on
03/15/2005 7:17:58 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
(www.Hillary-Watch.org)
To: Senator Pardek
There's the story that the number belonged to Jenny, a band member's ex-girlfriend, and that he wrote the song to get back at her for dumping him. She supposedly got a restraining order taken out against him and won a court order to have the song pulled from the airwaves for awhile.
Other explanations have her becoming angry with him and changing her number (which, ironically, is what the song begged her not to do). In another flavor, the band is sued by a sheriff who had both a daughter named Jenny and the notorious 867-5309 as his home number.
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posted on
03/15/2005 7:18:40 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
To: clyde asbury
She doesn't know me, but she makes me so happy.
To: Xenalyte
She is such the hoochie.I got it, I got it.
But who can I turn to?
To: Xenalyte
I was making a joke and I get lectured - Oy Vey!
To: Senator Pardek
I am all about the useless information.
53
posted on
03/15/2005 7:21:59 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
To: Constitution Day
I hear there's this chick behind glass who you can talk to. It'll cost you a dollar first, and don't fall in love.
54
posted on
03/15/2005 7:23:09 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I am at Dr. Venture's lab to right that which is wrong and to repair the torn curtain of time itself)
To: NYC GOP Chick
Lorraine Newman is a freeper!
To: Xenalyte; Rex Anderson
To: Xenalyte
LMAO. I'll try not to, but I'm such a pushover.
To: Indy Pendance
58
posted on
03/15/2005 7:25:49 PM PST
by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
To: LibFreeOrDie
Okay, this is all fine and good but INdependence6 isn't working.....What's 20,000 x IN6?
59
posted on
03/15/2005 7:27:46 PM PST
by
AnOldCowhand
(The west is dead. You may lose a sweetheart, but you will never forget her - Charles Russell)
To: Xenalyte
There's the story that the number belonged to Jenny, a band member's...
Too much information: In our local area, the number was said to be to a junior high school.
60
posted on
03/15/2005 7:27:52 PM PST
by
clyde asbury
(But as the wind changed direction, the crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive.)
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