lol. that was one of my math probs today. i just put when A = B

Why thank you dumdum , you've always been my fav of the SM bunch (thats right dan! )

ooh forgot it was friday and time for another riddle (quick and easy one )


At the local pub, 2 fathers and 2 sons walk in and they sit down to enjoy a tasty pint of beer each. Between them they drank exactly 3 pints. Each person drank 1 pint.

How?

one son, one father and one grandfather. if i need to clear that up i can, but i think that sums it up pretty well!!!

ok, now that i got the answer up there first i'll go ahead and clarify now. the first father is the second fathers father, which makes the second father a father and son. so there is two fathers and one son. then there is the second fathers son. but nobody got drunk in the making of this math problem cause they only drank one pint each.

good work and speedy too

i'm just cool like that

that was easy

Almost as easy as 5

somebody forgot about the math problem on friday!!!!!

The answer to the math problem

I did horrible probability in College

If one of 3 boxes contains fun, that means that each box has 33.33% chance of having fun

so to summarise
Box 1 = 33.33%
Box 2 = 33.33%
Box 3 = 33.33%

But wait.. monkey opens Box 3 and laughs in your face saying what now?

Box 1 still has 33.33% chance of having fun however
Box 2 is now 66.66% chance of having goodies inside why? here's the tricky semantics

Box 1 has a 33.33% chance of having goodies, which means that there is a 66.66% chance of goodies NOT being in there..
So when Box 2 and 3 where there, the probability of fun NOT being in box 1 was 66.66% split two ways into box 2 and 3...
but since box 3 is taken away then that 66.66% chance of NOT being in box 1 and being in box 2 and 3, can now be interrupted as a 66.66% chance of fun being in box 2 alone.

I hope you followed

Since I couldn't think of a puzzle that people wouldn't either get straight away or cheat using goolge, I thought I'd post a link to:

http://www.deathball.net/notpron/

[Edit: reposted the above, I used the wrong address (bad memory in my old age)]

(it really isn't so should be safe to click)

solve that one then

Pass

i couldn't click on it, so i copied and pasted the link. it has no math problem i could see, but i didn't want to allow the pop-ups. how many can prove that .999999....= 1? besides monkey of course, cause i already showed him.lol

floating point numbers...?

not floating point numbers. just .9 repeated.

I remember this, did it ages ago.
If, 10X (= 9.999999) - X (= .999999) = 9X (= 9)

Therefore X = 1

yay for me

come on guys my brain doesn't operate at this time of day,

i'm not sure what kind of crap that is, but it don't look good

lol

How can you not follow that? Its just a simple subtraction equation consiting of two constituents which prove that .9 reccuring is another way of writting 1, so there

um, no its not

It clearly is we need an official adjudicator

if u think you no it so well why dont you give an indepth explanation instead of writing an equation (which looks like shite) where you could have copied and pasted it from anywhere, without a proof.

If you start with 10X represented by the number 9.999999 and subtract 1X represented by .999999 you end up with 9X represented by the number 9. Therefore 1X = 1

If you don't follow that then you are PROPERLY RETARDED!

i think that is the most retarded shit i have ever seen!!! u need to scratch that shit and start over!!!lol

lol

You still don't get it? if not you'd fail a bloody SATS test from year 5 or whenever you take it

i think you failed!!! hehe

lol

Apologies, I have a mild perpensity for OCD and therefore must make comment

Firstly only .99 RECURRING = 1
The notation should be a dot above the recurring number, but that can't be displayed in the forums, so I'll use the word 'recurring' instead

Easy Factorisation:

x = .99 recurring


10x = 9.99 recurring
10x - x = 9.99 recurring - x
9x = 9.99 recurring - .99 recurring
9x = 9

x = 1

so .99 recurring = 1

I think the above is straight forward enough to not require an explanation (so shut it 5 )

lol

well, at least that looks better than the way 6 put it.lol. i think he was just tryin to confuse people
now i can follow that. and theres another way to do it also.

for example

for example your momma!!!


a little easier to understand also. no need in a big long math prob.
.33recurring = 1/3
multiply both sides by 3.

dedekind cuts, cauchy sequences etc., However these get into the realms of pointless nerdyness

nerds we are. lol

swear I did that in my GCSE's (age 14-16 for the yank) 2 years ago. But i wouldnt have been able to work it out though.

Monty hall problem, look it up. Or just click right here if you're lazy like me.

necroing a post from 6 years ago. Impressive

Also the monty hall problem is great