It's been years since I did maths...care to explain a little bit more...?
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What starts with E and ends with E but only has 1 Letter in it
OK so its me and you then. Got it.
I gather Eugene is up - Whats the hold up big guy?
It has six faces and twelve edges too
It has six colors one of which is blue.
It can twist and turn, keeping you amused
Until all is whole you may be confused
What is it?
Alright, a hard maths puzzle, Enjoy:
A very long hallway has 1000 doors numbered 1 to 1000; all doors are initially closed. One by one, 1000 people go down the hall: the first person opens each door, the second person closes all doors with even numbers, the third person closes door 3, opens door 6, closes door 9, opens door 12, etc. That is, the n th person changes all doors whose numbers are divisible by n . After all 1000 people have gone down the hall, which doors are open and which are closed?
Trololololololo..... :D
They're all closed except door one?
I used my calendar to calculate the first 20 doors. I found that all the square numbers will be open, meaning: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81 and 100 will be open. Correct?
Edit: I see now that there is 1000 doors...
Open doors:
1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100,121,144,169,196,225,25 6,289,324,361,400,441,484,529,576,625,676,729,784, 841,900,961
Hope that's all...
It was! At first glance I ignored the riddle as it looked too difficult, but as I was studying last night I thought this looked more interesting!;)
I found this one on the internet, too lazy to figure it out.
Chris Mercer informed me that in Germany there are calendars made of wooden blocks for very bright kids.
There are two six sided dice, and by choosing which face is displayed for the two of these, all possible monthly dates (from 01, 02, …, to 29, 30, 31) can be displayed; note the single digit dates must start with a 0.
Your job is to write one digit (from 0, 1, 2, …, 8, 9) on each face of the two dice so that this can be done. Good luck!
Both dice need 0 to 3 on i.e. 0,1,2,3. That leaves 2 empty sides on each die. On the one die, you can write 5 and 6 and on the other you can write 7 and 8. If you place the first die upside-down on the 6, it acts as a 9, and if you place the second die upside-down on the 7 is acts a 4. If it makes you happier it can be a 4 that acts a 7 when upside down, but either way, it works.
Surely only one dice needs a zero since you don't have a 00 date but you do get 11, 22, 33 so the dice needs to be 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 1, 2 ,3, 6, 7, 8 with six doubling as 9 also?
Didn't see the 0,5 there
Edit
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8
I tried looking for the 'real' answer, but the website I borrowed this from doesn't post answers.
I tried the riddle myself, and got a different answer than StaggerLee, I believe there's a way to work around the 4-7 issue.
Jack and Mike are out chilling when Jack says, "I bet you R500 I can jump from America to China."
Mike keen for Easy money agrees and soon loses, how did Jack win?
Oh, that's unexpected:)
Hope this one hasn't bee posted yet.
The warden meets with 23 new prisoners when they arrive. He tells them, "You may meet today and plan a strategy. But after today, you will be in isolated cells and will have no communication with one another.
"In the prison is a switch room, which contains two light switches labeled 1 and 2, each of which can be in either up or the down position. I am not telling you their present positions. The switches are not connected to anything.
"After today, from time to time whenever I feel so inclined, I will select one prisoner at random and escort him to the switch room. This prisoner will select one of the two switches and reverse its position. He must flip one switch when he visits the switch room, and may only flip one of the switches. Then he'll be led back to his cell.
"No one else will be allowed to alter the switches until I lead the next prisoner into the switch room. I'm going to choose prisoners at random. I may choose the same guy three times in a row, or I may jump around and come back. I will not touch the switches, if I wanted you dead you would already be dead.
"Given enough time, everyone will eventually visit the switch room the same number of times as everyone else. At any time, anyone may declare to me, 'We have all visited the switch room.'
"If it is true, then you will all be set free. If it is false, and somebody has not yet visited the switch room, you will all die horribly. You will be carefully monitored, and any attempt to break any of these rules will result in instant death to all of you"
What is the strategy they come up with so that they can be free?
Lots of loud screaming, that or the one switch acts as a tracker.
Ok if the first guy switches the left switch down then he can keep track of people going through. Then after that when a prisoner enters for the first time he flicks the switch on the left to ON then on any following trips he plays with the other switch. If the switch is already at ON the he plays the right switch until its open for him to press.
This means only prisoner 1 can reset the left switch to OFF and each of the other 22 prisoners only turn it to ON once ever. When prisoner 1 resets 22 switches then he knows everyone has been through once for sure. The right switch is purely for fun.
Wow sweet, traffic has its uses after all.
A young scholar grew tired of hearing how knowledgeable the Emperors Advisor Richard is. One day he decided to challenge the advisor and try knock him down
He gave the advisor 2 options, 100 easy questions or 1 difficult questions. The advisor, being a busy man, decided on the hard question.
The Scholar then asked "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
"Simple, the Egg" replied Richard. The scholar seeing an opening asked him why.
What did the Advisor, Richard say to end the discussion and left the scholar amazed?
"Because I said so"?
What does this message say?
G T Y O R J O T E O U I A B G T
Hint : Count the letters and try splitting the letters up into groups.