hint = ^+*
On 12/4/10, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > <8 sec > too easy :D > > On 12/4/10, Albert Abril <albert.ab...@gmail.com> wrote: >> about 3 or 4 minutes with, with a paper and a pencil >> >> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Branko Vukelic <bg.bra...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> That's an example of thinking outside the box. :D >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:34 PM, ron_m <ron.mco...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > When I saw these I was thinking what kind of weird number base is this >>> > in to get simple addition to yield those results. Oh well back to the >>> > planet I live on. >>> > >>> > On Dec 3, 1:25 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >> On Dec 3, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Branko Vukelic wrote: >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Jonathan Lundell >>> >> > <jlund...@pobox.com> >>> wrote: >>> >> >> The answer was obvious at a glance to those of us who had >>> multiplication tables drilled into us all those years ago, I think. >>> >> >>> >> > I hated those tables. :) Probably explains why it took me so long. >>> >> > But >>> >> > I did in my head more or less the same thing massimo's program did. >>> >> > Just tried different permutations until one fit, and then applied >>> >> > it >>> >> > to the last one to test if it works. >>> >> >>> >> Yeah, they were pretty tedious. >>> >> >>> >> 2+3=10 >>> >> 7+2=63 >>> >> 6+5=66 >>> >> 8+4=96 >>> >> So: >>> >> 9+7=??? >>> >> >>> >> When I see "7+2=63", the 9 sort of jumps out at me, from the >>> >> proximity >>> of the 7 & 63. And of course the 7 & 2 also look like 9, so Eureka! >>> (Once >>> you then figure out the role the 9 has to play.) >>> >> >>> >> Ditto the other combinations, though in practice they just serve to >>> confirm the original hypothesis. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Branko Vukelić >>> >>> bg.bra...@gmail.com >>> stu...@brankovukelic.com >>> >>> Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ >>> Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ >>> Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) >>> I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny >>> >>> Gimp Brushmakers Guild >>> http://bit.ly/gbg-group >>> >> >
