and when I did, you'd have the approximate answer!!melaniejane wrote:ygmir wrote:where does 2.8...............come from?
Just give me some fracking cornbread. geesh. with chilli.
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Hmmmm...
square root of the sum of the squares of adjacent sides
are they not all four adjacent,
or is there a catch here?
still cornfuzed. 
square root of the sum of the squares of adjacent sides
are they not all four adjacent,
or is there a catch here?
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That was the square root of the sum of the square root of four equal sides.ygmir wrote:where does 2.8...............come from?
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I see one problem.Triken wrote:That was the square root of the sum of the squaresroot of four equal sides.ygmir wrote:where does 2.8...............come from?
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Yikes.
so, square the sum of two sides, eight times...
eight, being two 'adjacent' at each of four corners
and find the square root of that.
ok, now I need a calculator.
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so, square the sum of two sides, eight times...
eight, being two 'adjacent' at each of four corners
and find the square root of that.
ok, now I need a calculator.
**dusts off brass abacus**
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I think yer makin it more complicated, than it is (all said, in that I might be totally full of crap on this, and not know how to read or write an equation)Triken wrote:Yikes.
so, square the sum of two sides, eight times...
eight, being two 'adjacent' at each of four corners
and find the square root of that.
ok, now I need a calculator.![]()
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ygmir wrote:I think yer makin it more complicated, than it is (all said, in that I might be totally full of crap on this, and not know how to read or write an equation)Triken wrote:Yikes.
so, square the sum of two sides, eight times...
eight, being two 'adjacent' at each of four corners
and find the square root of that.
ok, now I need a calculator.![]()
**dusts off brass abacus**
Sssooooooooooooooooo...
How 'bout them little mousies?
mousies' what I like...
bite they little toes off...
(something, something, something...)
someone wrote that...
and where the heck did the 4.153 come from,
anyway???
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I put 4.153 in there to make the joke/riddle work.Triken wrote:ygmir wrote:I think yer makin it more complicated, than it is (all said, in that I might be totally full of crap on this, and not know how to read or write an equation)Triken wrote:Yikes.
so, square the sum of two sides, eight times...
eight, being two 'adjacent' at each of four corners
and find the square root of that.
ok, now I need a calculator.![]()
**dusts off brass abacus**
Sssooooooooooooooooo...
How 'bout them little mousies?
mousies' what I like...
bite they little toes off...
(something, something, something...)
someone wrote that...
and where the heck did the 4.153 come from,
anyway???
it's so corny, when you hear the answer..........
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oooops.....MyDearFriend wrote:None of that crazy arithmetic, that's all I ask.
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cant be that smart i didn't know what a fibonacci sequence was then again nor did he
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Using any mathematical methods, can you make 42 from the following figures:
2
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9
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Do I have to remain smart to post? Because I just finished writing a paper on actin structure and functioning, and my brain needs a vacation from boring smarty pants stuff.
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... No seriously, I suck at math.
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Love to eat them mousiesTriken wrote:Sssooooooooooooooooo...
How 'bout them little mousies?
mousies' what I like...
bite they little toes off...
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someone wrote that...
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Bwahahahahahahahaha, (((Triken))), cornbread crazy is perfectly acceptableTriken wrote:oooops.....MyDearFriend wrote:None of that crazy arithmetic, that's all I ask.
until you use the squared sum of the crumbs to prove the mice were eaten by the wrong cats.
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Highlight text to see:graidawg wrote:Using any mathematical methods, can you make 42 from the following figures:
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(9 - 4 + 2) x 3!

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101010=42
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Thanks, Eric!Eric wrote:Love to eat them mousiesTriken wrote:Sssooooooooooooooooo...
How 'bout them little mousies?
mousies' what I like...
bite they little toes off...
(something, something, something...)
someone wrote that...
Mousies what I love to eat
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet
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(it's been about 4 decades since I read that...
I was hoping someone would recognize it and
write the real thing here.)
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ok, I ran it into the dirt......dang.Triken wrote:Hmmmm...
square root of the sum of the squares of adjacent sides
are they not all four adjacent,
or is there a catch here?
still cornfuzed.
so:
each side is 4.153 inches. Squared = 17.2475. added to eachother (4 sides) (or, times 4) = 68.99
and, as we all know, (here's the relation to corn bread), the square root of 68.99 is (approximately):8.3 or:
8 something.
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(9X4)+(2X3)=42graidawg wrote:Using any mathematical methods, can you make 42 from the following figures:
2
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9
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or maybe take the four out of the line, the, put the two after?Trishntek wrote:(9X4)+(2X3)=42graidawg wrote:Using any mathematical methods, can you make 42 from the following figures:
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[(3X4)+9]X2=42ygmir wrote:or maybe take the four out of the line, the, put the two after?Trishntek wrote:(9X4)+(2X3)=42graidawg wrote:Using any mathematical methods, can you make 42 from the following figures:
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(2+4+9)X3=42graidawg wrote:Using any mathematical methods, can you make 42 from the following figures:
2
3
4
9
Tnt wrote:
(9X4)+(2X3)=42
Yggy wrote:
or maybe take the four out of the line, the, put the two after?
Tnt wrote;
[(3X4)+9]X2=42
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