Hard News: That Buzzing Sound
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Even if his computer got "hacked", which I doubt, nobody in the NZ police would be able to track anything down. They do motoring offences, shoplifting and brawls, not IT security.
The police have a... I forget the unit name... electronic crimes unit or something. Mostly civilians, IT graduates. They would have done the investigation into the technical details.
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Length is always greater than width but has less influence. A natural conundrum?
Didn't Friedrick Schelgel and Lewis Carroll solve that one Steve? Fermat's Last Theorem is gone too, I'm afraid.
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A natural conundrum?
Is that the same as this?
3 guys go out for pizza'
was a nice spinach, sundried tomato, olives and feta one.
On payment, each puts in $10.00 and gives $30.00 to their waiter.
Waiter returns with $5.00 change and the guys take $1.00 each and offer the remaining $2.00 as a tip to the waiter
therefore each guy was happy with their $9.00
Well if 3 x 9 =27 + 2(waiter tip) =29.
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Pizza? shouldn't that be Curry?
Which leads me nicely to.
You are in a room with two exits and two guards. One door leads to freedom the other door leads to death. One guard always tells the truth the other always lies.
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Oh, thank you Dyan. I can see me spending the rest of the day with bits of cut up paper and massive hair loss.
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Fn+1 × Fn-1 = Fn × Fn-1 + Fn-1 × Fn-1 and Fn × Fn = Fn × Fn-1 + Fn × Fn-2. Their difference is
Fn+1 × Fn-1 - Fn × Fn = - (Fn × Fn-2 - Fn-1 × Fn-1).I love maths.
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Sam F:
Lulz.
How about the "brown budget"? :D
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Bart Jannsen - cool. Last looked into this 3 years ago, and obviously, much more tasty stuff published. Between you & dyan & refs, I'll get up to layperson speed -many thanks both!
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Deborah Coddington's column about Christine Rankin is worth reading.
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Deborah Coddington's column about Christine Rankin is worth reading.
Wow. It most certainly is.
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Am I the only person who took the puzzles seriously? Oh well...
Is that the same as this?
3 guys go out for pizza'
was a nice spinach, sundried tomato, olives and feta one.
On payment, each puts in $10.00 and gives $30.00 to their waiter.
Waiter returns with $5.00 change and the guys take $1.00 each and offer the remaining $2.00 as a tip to the waiter
therefore each guy was happy with their $9.00
Well if 3 x 9 =27 + 2(waiter tip) =29.
What happened to the other $1.00?The $9 represents each person's contribution to the $30 handed over, minus their change of $1 each. In other words, the $9 is their share of the total price of the pizza plus their share of the tip. Therefore, the $9 includes the tip already, so it's incorrect to add the $2 tip to the 3 x $9 ($27). You should only add the change, which is three dollars and so adds to the correct total of $30.
I haven't figured out Steve's puzzle yet.
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Steve Parks wrote :
Am I the only person who took the puzzles seriously?
I was familiar with both puzzles so it'd have been pointless to simply write down the answers without letting people have a crack at them.
With regard to the Pizza puzzle, I find that analysing the start and finish conditions shows most easily where the money goes, namely :
Start : 3 guys with $10 eachFinish : 3 guys with $1 each
Waiter $2
Restaurant $25This makes it obvious that the $2 should not be added to the $27 paid, but subtracted from it to find the amount that the restaurant got.
Keep working on the other puzzle - its a good one, and quite simple once you know the trick.
Cheers,
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Am I the only person who took the puzzles seriously? Oh well...
No Steve, I have been perplexed with Dyans and I am getting there. :)
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Brent,
Yeah, once you clarify the situation in your head, that one resolves pretty quickly.
I know the answer to the guard one, I'd actually heard it before so will leave that for others.
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Only too happy to help Islander.
It works both ways - you and all the others here help me understand things I just didn't get previously so I'm only too happy to return the (much appreciated) favour.
Re the jigsaw:
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The moribound swan reappers only to offer a pertinent link: last night my belle and I happened to be watching an old episode of the daily show(*) featuring an interview with Mike Huckabee. Here's part II, where they discuss gay marriage. Huckabee makes a series of annoying points that Emma addressed in her post, but Stewart scored big for me when he said - and I paraphrase - that one of the great indignities of our time is that we are forcing gays to make the case of why they deserve equal rights.
(*) Admission of derangitude: we watch the daily show and the colbert report, but since we couldn't possibly spend that kind of time in front of the telly every week, instead of jumping ahead we just keep falling further and further behind. We're up to December 08 now. On the plus side, it was nice to get a repeat of election night.
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Anyone wanting elaboration on Bart's answer to the jigsaw puzzle, see here.
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Posted in the wrong thread. Argh. Gots lots of those puzzles if we want to mega-threadjack.
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How to find Gio's missing hour a week to watch tele?
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Oh, no, that's too easy. Invent a time machine, go back in time and advise him against having so many children.
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3410,
Keep working on the other puzzle - its a good one, and quite simple once you know the trick.
It is (a good one, I mean), though there is one peice of required information that is possibly impled but not stated. Namely that each guard knows which door he guards.
So, to recap (with apologies to Steve Barnes):
You are in a room with two exits and two guards.
One door leads to freedom the other door leads to death.
Each guard knows which door he guards.
One guard always tells the truth the other always lies.You are allowed one question. What is that question?
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Oh that's easy. You grab one guard by the neck, hold your dagger to his throat, and explain that he can point out the right door, no pissing about, and he comes with you.
The problem with you intellectuals is that you're always overcomplicating things.
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No wait I saw this in a Bowie movie.
The girl grabs one of the nose rings and stuffs it the guard's nose...
No, it's gone again. Nevermind.
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3410,
lol, Stephen.
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