On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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> Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> *wibble*
>
> Grep, get a life!
ITYM "get a _job_" :)
Dave...
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* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> *wibble*
>
> Grep, get a life!
>
Dave,
trust me that isn't that sad, what would be sad is if i had already
started writing a quiz for next friday and dreamt some of the
questions, and was say for exa
Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
*wibble*
Grep, get a life!
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:30:51PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
> Greg McCarroll wrote:
>
> >212
> > Clue: Mark Fowler should know this one
>
> It's a NYC area code.
It was, for many years, *the* nyc area code.
dha
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* Chris Devers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >1 , 9 , 36 , 84 , 126
> >3 , 7 , 31 , 127
>
> I can't find these ones! I can't cheat! :)
>
I did these ones myself ;-)
> Not in the book!
Yes it is. Read the clue again carefully and think about it.
Greg
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> I remembered one of my favourite books, "The Penguin Dictionary of
> Curious and Interesting Numbers".
Good book :)
> So hear we go (some are easy, some are pretty much impossible)..
>
>4840
Clue: page 158. Is it Robin Szmetia, esq
Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > >4840
> > > Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance.
> >
> > For some reason, this sounds like a tape drive to me
> >
> > >3 , 7 ,
Greg McCarroll wrote:
>1 , 9 , 36 , 84 , 126
> Clue: Don't use C to work this out
Ah! Got the joke. (Well, after peeking in the EIS.) Actually, C *does* have
something to do with those numbers.
>212
> Clue: Mark Fowler should know this one
It's a NYC area code.
Cheers,
Ph
Peter Haworth wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >3 , 7 , 31 , 127
> > Clue: They are in sequence
>
> 2**p - 1, where p is prime
aka "Mersenne numbers". (A subset of those numbers is the "Mersenne
primes".)
Apparently, they're important in factoring
To summarise the answers we have so far .
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>4840
> Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance.
>1 , 9 , 36 , 84 , 126
> Clue: Don't use C to work this out
>3 , 7 , 31 , 127
> Clue: They ar
Dave's 84 is the correct answer for this riddle.
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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> From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 10/19/01 12:31:29 PM
>
> >On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out
>
* Peter Haworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >4840
> > Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance.
>
> For some reason, this sounds like a tape drive to me
>
> >3 , 7 , 31 , 127
> > Clue: They a
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:55:22AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
> I believe your error was in the calculation of 4 x 504 :)
Oh yeah. Oops.
Look! It's the Goodyear blimp! [runs away]
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> Assuming the latter ...
>
>x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + y + 4 = x # son's life is y
>y = (x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + y)/2
Actually y = (x - 4) / 2 is easier to work with.
cheers
Andrew
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10/19/01 12:31:29 PM
>On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out
>> the age of Diophantus,
>> "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . .
>> Through art algebrai
But Diophantus studied equations that are solvable in integers only. I
reckon that that is a clue to the desired solution.
Richard
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:48:51 +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>4840
> Clue: Robin Szmeti I think will have the best chance.
For some reason, this sounds like a tape drive to me
>3 , 7 , 31 , 127
> Clue: They are in sequence
2**p - 1, where p is prime
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out the age of
> Diophantus,
> "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . .
> Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old:
> "God gave him his boyhood one-
From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10/19/01 9:48:51 AM
> And finally a quick riddle, where you have to work out
> the age of Diophantus,
>
> "Here lies Diophantus," the wonder behold . . .
> Through art algebraic, the stone tells how old:
> "God gave him his boyhood one-sixth of
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