[GeoStL] Re: FW: Your Age By Diner & Restaurant Math
- From: "tnands" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:03:20 -0500
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... siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh ..
There's one in every crowd isn't there?? (JOKE JOKE LOL)
Although I've noticed that with this crowd it's possible that as being as
mathematically challenged as I am, that *I* am .. "the One"
MAGIC I tell ya .. pure MAGIC.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lusicic" <lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:37 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: FW: Your Age By Diner & Restaurant Math
> -
> Yeah. There was something like this running around a few years back. You
> puttogether a bunch of seemingly meaningless calculations, but the end
> resultis that you are manipulating the original input and disguising it in
> the process.
> Suppose the original number is N for the number of days you want to eat
> out.
>
> Multiply by 2 and you have 2N
>
> Add 5 and you have 2N + 5
>
> Multiply that by 50 and you get 100N +250. In effect, you have moved N two
> digits to the left, but you also have an extra 250 in there disguising
> this
> fact.
>
> Then you add the 1756 or 1757. Lets just use 1756, so you wind up with
> 100N
> +2006. If you birthday was already this year, you would have 2007 instead
> of
> 2006.
>
> Subtract your birth year and you get your age in the last two digits
> assumingyou are less than 100 years old, and you clear up the number
> disguising the N in the third digit from the right.
>
> So it isn't magical, it is mathmagical.
>
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