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What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
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Quartz... wrote:
How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions
Plant one potatoe, wait awhile, get out two, give to six children. Though by then they are probably all dead from starvation so you get to keep the potatoes for yourself.
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Shog9 wrote:
And with that, Paul closed his browser, sipped his herbal tea, fixed the flower in his hair, and smiled brightly at the multitude of cute, furry animals flocking around the grassy hillside where he sat coding Ruby on his Mac...
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What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
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9^9^9!
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What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
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Quartz... wrote:
How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions
- Since we can't use fractions, we'll have to use a knife to divide up the potatoes. This is fine though; knives cut through potatoes much faster than fractions do.
- Eat one, then give a potato to each child.
- Sit children in a row, give each a fork, then place potatoes between them. They'll work it out...
- Sit children in a circle, and working clockwise, hand out potatoes. When you run out of potatoes, start handing out rocks. Then run away.
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What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
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You could always just mash the potatoes.
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9!!! is bigger, and uses only one digit :) Or what about 99/0 two digits
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Or what about 99/0
:wtf: undefined... at least in the real field...
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Quartz... wrote:
How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions
- Since we can't use fractions, we'll have to use a knife to divide up the potatoes. This is fine though; knives cut through potatoes much faster than fractions do.
- Eat one, then give a potato to each child.
- Sit children in a row, give each a fork, then place potatoes between them. They'll work it out...
- Sit children in a circle, and working clockwise, hand out potatoes. When you run out of potatoes, start handing out rocks. Then run away.
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Shog9 wrote:
Eat one, then give a potato to each child.
This one concerns me a little, Shog. For the numbers to work out, you'd have to have meant to eat a child, then pass out the 5 spuds to the remaining 5 sad, fearful children. Otherwise, excellent solutions! Good "out-of-the-box" thinking!
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Shog9 wrote:
Eat one, then give a potato to each child.
This one concerns me a little, Shog. For the numbers to work out, you'd have to have meant to eat a child, then pass out the 5 spuds to the remaining 5 sad, fearful children. Otherwise, excellent solutions! Good "out-of-the-box" thinking!
BW
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Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
-- Neil Peartbrianwelsch wrote:
For the numbers to work out, you'd have to have meant to eat a child, then pass out the 5 spuds to the remaining 5 sad, fearful children.
Yeah, but i'll bet they'd appreciate their potatoes a bit more after that...
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Quartz... wrote:
How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions
- Since we can't use fractions, we'll have to use a knife to divide up the potatoes. This is fine though; knives cut through potatoes much faster than fractions do.
- Eat one, then give a potato to each child.
- Sit children in a row, give each a fork, then place potatoes between them. They'll work it out...
- Sit children in a circle, and working clockwise, hand out potatoes. When you run out of potatoes, start handing out rocks. Then run away.
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What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
Omit Needless Words - Strunk, William, Jr.
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limit as x->0 11/x
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What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
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A 1: 999 As a lot of you had already figured out , the question was only three digits so cannot use factorial there. A 2: Serve mashed potatoes , a lot of you have guessed this one too
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Shog9 wrote:
Eat one, then give a potato to each child.
This one concerns me a little, Shog. For the numbers to work out, you'd have to have meant to eat a child, then pass out the 5 spuds to the remaining 5 sad, fearful children. Otherwise, excellent solutions! Good "out-of-the-box" thinking!
BW
Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand.
Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.
-- Neil Peart -
What is the largest values you can write with ONLY three numbers digits, ofcourse ? For those who don't want to think in numbers How will you divide 5 potatoes among 6 childrens, you cannot use fractions -- modified at 14:28 Tuesday 6th February, 2007
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peterchen wrote:
Or what about 99/0
:wtf: undefined... at least in the real field...
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but as close as possible to "as big as it can get" :rolleyes: ok,
lim (x->0) (99/x)<7code> would stretch the requirements a bit (and it's not really a number, but it might pass) * * * _Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Velopers, Develprs, Developers!_ We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic _joint venture definition of CP_ [Linkify!](http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/Linkify.asp)|[Fold With Us!](http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/whos_who.asp?msg=919055&id=175#xx919055xx) -
Good, but you're loosing a bit on the coolness factor posting an hour after the solution and without using the superscript :-D
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Good, but you're loosing a bit on the coolness factor posting an hour after the solution and without using the superscript :-D
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A 1: 999 As a lot of you had already figured out , the question was only three digits so cannot use factorial there. A 2: Serve mashed potatoes , a lot of you have guessed this one too
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A 1: Question was only three digits, but question should have been only three digits and digts only. A 2: I prefer Shog's answer
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A 1: Question was only three digits, but question should have been only three digits and digts only. A 2: I prefer Shog's answer
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You gained it all back :) thanks for taking it for what it was, as a joke
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HollyHooo wrote:
only three digits and digts only.
oh ! that IFF factor :-> missed it
HollyHooo wrote:
I prefer Shog's answer
me too :-D
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Quartz... wrote:
HollyHooo wrote: I prefer Shog's answer me too
LOL
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9!9!9! == a big freakin' number.
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delete this;9!9!9!! is bigger :-D
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