New Year's Day arithmetic

udg

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Hi all,

while trying to recover from too much food, wine, cakes, whatever they fed me with these last few days..a simple arithmetic word game came to mind.

"you have got 100. add 100,20 then 30. add 100 again then 150. double it then double again. and finally add 16".


Happy 070E ! Happy MMXVI or whatever year is in your culture!

hint: when writing the above game I was in Italy..
 

udg

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Hellooo! How many of you did read the fine print and found that the arithmetic purposedly didn't sum 2016?
It was a joke involving the decimal separator misinterpreted as a comma in a list of items.. just to test children attention (adults don't pay that much attention and usually get cheated).

Enjoy.
 
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sorex

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hey udg,

the math is right from what I read. And indeed, while most euro people use a , for decimals I always use a . due to long time computer usage so I used it right I guess.
 
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Beja

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Happy(11111100000) AS Greetings
 

udg

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Well, since today is Jan 3rd I'll greet year 2202200 (should be 2016 base 3, hand calculated..)

@sorex : me too ( and I guess most of the forum members) use the decimal point instead of the comma; btw I use it for dates too due to my horrible handwriting eheh
 

LucaMs

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udg said:
due to my horrible handwriting eheh
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udg said:
"you have got 100. add 100,20 then 30. add 100 again then 150. double it then double again. and finally add 16".
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If you had followed the rules of punctuation, you should have put a space after the comma

"You have got 100. Add 100, 20 then 30. Add 100 again then 150. Double it then double again and finally add 16"
 
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