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December 1st, 2004, 08:49 AM
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Location: Texas
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Highly Tricky Baffling Math
This is tricky math that will mess with your head like it did mine.
This must be done in your head only.
Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.
Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000. Now add 30. Add another 1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000
Now add 10. What is the total?
Scroll down for answer.
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Did you get 5000 ?
The correct answer is actually 4100.
Don't believe it? Check with your calculator!
I sit here and add it on paper and it comes to 4100 every time, and then add it in my head and I get 5000 every time!
Totally whacked!
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December 1st, 2004, 08:56 AM
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Bad Email Address
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Weird! where did you find this?
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December 1st, 2004, 09:39 AM
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Posted on another board. I don't know where that guy got it from. Freaky, huh?
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December 1st, 2004, 09:47 AM
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Bad Email Address
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I should have commented *after* trying it. In my head and on paper I got 5000
You sure you got the instructions right?  |
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December 1st, 2004, 10:14 AM
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Major
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Cheesehead in Connecticut
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I got 5000 on paper and in my head!
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Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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December 1st, 2004, 10:45 AM
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Snowball, My Angel Baby
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Are you adding an extra '0' to the 40, 30, 20, 10 ?
That might be why you're coming up with 5000.
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Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .
Children are a message that we send
to a time that we will never see.
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December 1st, 2004, 11:29 AM
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Major
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noI am following the instructions
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Cheese: [has tinfoil on his teeth] I have braces!
Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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December 1st, 2004, 11:42 AM
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Snowball, My Angel Baby
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I know.
All I meant was that if one pictures "1000 + 40" as "1400" and so on then, one may arrive at an answer of "5000". It's how you "see it" in your mind.
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Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .
Children are a message that we send
to a time that we will never see.
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December 1st, 2004, 11:51 AM
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On Vacation...
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Um... my brain must be different I got 4100 in my head - and I just woke up and I have a massive headach! But that's a good thing you wouldn't want me making mistakes whith math when calculating dosages for injections now right?   |
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December 1st, 2004, 12:18 PM
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Snowball, My Angel Baby
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I did too, Rowan.
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Lay down
Your sweet and weary head
The night is falling
You have come to journey's end
Sleep now
And dream of the ones who came before
They are calling
From across the distant shore .
Children are a message that we send
to a time that we will never see.
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December 2nd, 2004, 03:37 AM
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Major
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Cheesehead in Connecticut
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d'oh. never was a very good math student.
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Cheese: [has tinfoil on his teeth] I have braces!
Mac: You found that on the ground, didn't you?
Cheese: Garbage can.
-episode "Mac Daddy"Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"
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