THE OFFICIAL Bored in Work 34 (1 Viewer)

[Speed Racer]

its a crap joke.....for Love day maaaaann.

 

[Speed Racer]

SCARY !

No, no, no .....this is truly fucked up. How the hell does it work?

http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/FlashEx/mindreader.html

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Re: SCARY !

Originally posted by Speed Racer
No, no, no .....this is truly fucked up. How the hell does it work?

http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/FlashEx/mindreader.html

Take, for example, 85. You're going to subtract 8 and 5 from it. Now when you subtract the 5 (which is the one's digit), you're left with 80, a multiple of ten. Now this will ALWAYS happen. E.g. 74, subtract 4, you're left with 70. Now you're left with a multiple of 10 (in this case 80 = 8 x 10) and you're subtracting the number 8, so you're going to get (8x10)-8 = 8x(10-1) = 8x9, i.e. a multiple of 9. Again, this will ALWAYS happen. 70-7 = (7x10)-7 = 7x(10-1) = 7x9. Hope this makes sense. Anyway, basically, your answer will always be a multiple of 9. If you check, all the multiples of 9 have the same symbol beside them (except for 90 and 99, but they're too big for you to get them as results)

 

[Speed Racer]

Re: Re: SCARY !

Originally posted by michaelknight
....... E.g. 74, subtract 4, you're left with 70. Now you're left with a multiple of 10 (in this case 80 = 8 x 10).......

No, if you pick 74 you add 7+4=11, then subtract that from 74 = 63, memorise the symbol for 63 and click, then hey presto, the crystal ball is right again.

Anyway I noticed that the symbols beside the numbers change after every click of the ball. Still.....this explains nothing as to how it works.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Yes, but if you subtract the 4 first, you get 74 - 4=70, a multiple of 10, and then subtract the 7, you get a multiple of 9, in this case 63. If the symbol in the crystal ball changes, I'd wager all the symbols beside the multiples of 9 change correspondingly...

 

[Speed Racer]

Originally posted by michaelknight
Yes, but if you subtract the 4 first, you get 74 - 4=70, a multiple of 10, and then subtract the 7, you get a multiple of 9, in this case 63. If the symbol in the crystal ball changes, I'd wager all the symbols beside the multiples of 9 change correspondingly...

Ok, ok .....I can see the top of the mountain now. Its cool though innit? Crafty bastard eh?

 

[Jimmy Magee]

Originally posted by Speed Racer
Ok, ok .....I can see the top of the mountain now. Its cool though innit? Crafty bastard eh?

Ah, y'know...(shrugs shoulders)....I can spot this sort of thing a mile off....(cool indifference)

 

[Monkey]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2753133.stm


So they are trying to kill off written english now, great. We can now use pictures of clichéd phrases instead of real words.