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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:18 pm    Post subject: Nerd Sniping Reply with quote



Only one point for a statisticians though (we're easy targets).

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That must mean Lawyers are either zero points (because they're a drain on society) or 10 (because you're doing society a great service). Laughing
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ShoE, you should not have posted that. My brain is now committed to finding the solution, whether I want to or not. I was going to go christmas shopping today, but now I can't think straight, what with all those resistors dancing in my head. My family's christmas is spoiled, thanks to you.

I hope you are happy!!
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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ShoE, you should not have posted that. My brain is now committed to finding the solution, whether I want to or not. I was going to go christmas shopping today, but now I can't think straight, what with all those resistors dancing in my head. My family's christmas is spoiled, thanks to you.

I hope you are happy!!


Oh yeah I'm happy; Pumpkins nerds are 5 points! W00T!!! #ni-1 #Bday Mr. Green

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PS: You find this note laying on the ground by a cliff-side, underneath a precariously perched large bolder ...

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Find the number n such that the alphanumeric equation KYOTO + KYOTO + KYOTO = TOKYO

has a solution in the base-n number system. Each letter in the equation denotes a digit in this system, and different letters denote different digits.


I really wish I hadn't done that ... Now I have to know ... FOOOOOM!!!


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

got it ... here's a hint: 10 or less. spoiler follows.

base is less than 10, and the four digits sum to 8.


Here's another ... what sort of motion does this graph represent?






Hint: The red line cannot extend in a straight line forever.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jbyram2 wrote:
<snip> all those resistors dancing in my head.</snip>


just a little Holiday Help for you there Pumpkin....Resistance is futile...
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Resistance approaching 0 Ohms? I believe it gets into one of those "x/0= ?" problems.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 1:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Can velocity be negative?????
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The spoiler wrote:
Looks like constant deceleration and acceleration the other way, like a loony trying not to be seen exploding in the distance and going straight up .... Up she goes, back down she goes.. *SPLAT*

if N=6,

12040 KYOTO
12040 KYOTO
12040 KYOTO
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40120 TOKYO
Ummm... wait, in base 6.... 3 x 4 is 20, not 12

damn...


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:
got it ... here's a hint: 10 or less. spoiler follows.

base is less than 10, and the four digits sum to 10.


ACK! THere is an error in my hint. Embarassed Embarassed Embarassed

The four digits sum to 8, NOT 10. Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes, with respect to a particular direction, which is a good clue ...

jbyram2 wrote:
The spoiler wrote:
Looks like constant deceleration and acceleration the other way, like a loony trying not to be seen exploding in the distance and going straight up .... Up she goes, back down she goes.. *SPLAT*

if N=6,

12040 KYOTO
12040 KYOTO
12040 KYOTO
_____
40120 TOKYO
Ummm... wait, in base 6.... 3 x 4 is 20, not 12

damn...



Close though! spolier: K O and T are correct, which leaves Y and N.


Here's one that has me stumped:

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The boiling point of olive oil is higher than the melting point of tin. If Italian skillets are made of tinned copper, how can they be used to fry food in olive oil?


Hmmm ... perhaps a tin alloy or coating doesn't behave the same as tin alone? FOOOOM!!!


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If you hold a slinky at the top and then let it drop, which way does the bottom of the slinky move initially?

- Down because it is now free to fall?
- Up because you are no longer holding the spring stretched?
- Neither because the bottom of the spring doesn't yet know that you've let go of the top?


My guess is that it will initially move up, as the spring will contract faster than it will fall. The center-of-mass of the slinky will immediately begin to fall, but the bottom will be pulled up relative to the center.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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If you hold a slinky at the top and then let it drop, which way does the bottom of the slinky move initially?

- Down because it is now free to fall?
- Up because you are no longer holding the spring stretched?
- Neither because the bottom of the spring doesn't yet know that you've let go of the top


It depends if the slinky was compressed or not when you start the experiment.
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Tinned copper surface in a skillet is a copper-rich tin alloy, which melts higher than just pure tin. If it did melt, it would dissolve more copper till it solidifies again.

Stays put, then moves down. The last coil is at equlibrium with the coil above it, and won't move up unless the coils above it moves up, which won't happen unless coil above it moves up etc etc etc... and the first coil immediately moves down. No telling WHAT happens when the spring coils all slink together. *SLINK*. That'd make the bottom coild sjhooty t out suddenly liek one of those ball things clink clink clink clink help me I'm stuck mommy help!.........

IF a pumpkin thinks about physics, how long until his head explodes in a shower of hot wax and smouldering seeds?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mohrorless wrote:
Sir Hamster of Elderberry wrote:
If you hold a slinky at the top and then let it drop, which way does the bottom of the slinky move initially?

- Down because it is now free to fall?
- Up because you are no longer holding the spring stretched?
- Neither because the bottom of the spring doesn't yet know that you've let go of the top


It depends if the slinky was compressed or not when you start the experiment.


Sorry, I ran out of time to post the picture before (and it wasn't a great picture). The slinky is held at one end (the "top") and allowed to stretch out downwards (but not touching the ground). It is then released at the top.
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