The solution works out to:<br>phi = e^((arcsin(i/2)*(-1)^n + n*pi)/i)<br><br>Where phi = the golden ratio<br>n is an integer and if n is even, then phi is the ...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:38 am
****** Brains Are Baked Here****************<br><br>S E N S O R <br>S E N S O R <br>____________<br>F U S I O N <br><br>IF you add, SENSOR to SENSOR, The ...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:40 am
....Brain, Accompanies you!!<br>__________________________________________________ <br><br>You have to use the numbers 7,7, 3 and 3 all once and only once with...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:41 am
OK you smart guys out there, let's see you figure this one out.<br><br>3 guys go for dinner, each buys a $10 steak. At the end of the meal, they collect $30 ...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:43 am
I've been out of the loop for a while and haven't had a chance to look over all of your enigmas...<br>Here is a puzzle that was given to me a couple of days ...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:44 am
Hi Folks:<br>If ya will scroll back a little on messages, a few posts ago, someone had posted, kind of a puzzle. Just wondered, If anyone ever tried or did...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:49 am
In which order these numbers are??<br>8,5,4,9,1,7,6,3,2......<br>**************************************<br><br>I have shown this puzzle to over 20 people, ...
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rakesh15
Jun 2, 2000 2:52 am
I have this really hard riddle! I can't answer it! Does anyone know what the answer is?:<br>( I know the ...
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dcgx
Jun 2, 2000 5:48 am
I love this riddle. Actually, a survey says that 53 out of 100 kindergardners got this right, whereas 11 out of 100 Stanford seniors got this right. Believe...
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omghty
Jun 2, 2000 6:51 am
Hi folks,<br><br>A spoiler just in case you're still working on it.....<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>But...
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TheGreatEnigma
Jun 2, 2000 2:17 pm
I don't know if anyone has already solved this, but all you do is turn on one of the light switches and wait a few minutes. Then turn it off and turn on ...
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TheGreatEnigma
Jun 2, 2000 3:28 pm
There is one such number: 3816547290<br><br>Numbering the digits d_1 - d_10 from left to right, we first note that:<br><br>d_2 must be even.<br><br>d_1 + d_2 +...
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TheGreatEnigma
Jun 2, 2000 3:33 pm
Alphabetical order:<br>Eight, Five, Four, Nine, One, Seven, Six, Three, Two<br><br>----<br>The next term is 312211, followed by 13112221<br><br><br>Just ...
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adh_math
Jun 2, 2000 4:16 pm
omghty writes: "many of we atheists would query at least the first two lines!"<br><br>But remember what Martin Gardner said (in proof of "a ham saandwich is...
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spiffyboffo
Jun 2, 2000 10:16 pm
-4*sin(i*ln phi)*ln i = pi...
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spiffyboffo
Jun 2, 2000 11:02 pm
There once was a lad from the sticks<br>Who liked to compose limmerics<br>But he failed at the sport<br>'Cause his lines were too ...
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spiffyboffo
Jun 2, 2000 11:19 pm
You're on your way to the village of truth tellers<br>when you come to a fork in the road. At the fork there's a person who's either from the truth tellers ...
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omghty
Jun 3, 2000 1:39 am
Hi Math, thanks, great lines.... :)...
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dcgx
Jun 3, 2000 1:52 am
HA HA HA thats a good one. By the way, I am religious but the irony part was good....
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econochrist99
Jun 3, 2000 2:09 am
Indeed, adh, your friend's bumper sticker bears perhaps the only apriori fact known to man, as it would appear a tautology (excuse my spelling). Not in the ...
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rakesh15
Jun 3, 2000 3:14 am
Hello folks:<br> This was my first day, with this club as a member as well as reader, and I was given an extreme response to my puzzles by many. I hope the ...
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rakesh15
Jun 4, 2000 3:53 am
Take a piece of paper.<br>make a point in center.<br>From point, draw 1" of line towards right...then..<br>1" of line towards down,.. then..<br>again, 1" of ...
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adh_math
Jun 4, 2000 4:31 pm
Perhaps the `riddle' should have been, "Is the car's owner a theist, an atheist, or a *Taoist*?" ... can't find my copy of the Tao Te Ching [Stephen Mitchell's...
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adh_math
Jun 4, 2000 4:57 pm
Hmmm, describing the solution in these Yahoo! fonts (not fixed-width) is harder than finding it:)<br>How about<br>AA<br>AB<br>CBBD<br>CCDD<br><br>On the ...
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real1023319
Jun 4, 2000 11:45 pm
You chose three points randomly that are in a sphere. You've found that one of the points is the center of the sphere. Then what is the probability that the ...
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voxathena
Jun 5, 2000 12:50 am
First puzzle - the number of letters in the (English) word for the number. ?=3.<br><br>Second puzzle:<br><br>1 = 1^36<br>33,554,432 = 2^25<br>43,046,721 = ...
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rakesh15
Jun 5, 2000 3:11 am
A expeditioner/discoverer wants to cross a desert on foot. the journey will take him six days, but a man can only carry water and food for four ...
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spiffyboffo
Jun 5, 2000 4:46 am
It's hard to explain using just words, but the four equal pieces are the same shape as the original.....
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spiffyboffo
Jun 5, 2000 4:46 am
It's hard to explain using just words, but the four equal pieces are the same shape as the original.....
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real1023319
Jun 5, 2000 6:05 am
Well, you need 2 carriers.<br><br>1. you guys (3 people) travel for one day<br>2. The first carrier gives food for one day to you and to the other carrier. He ...
