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Mar
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9th
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2004
12:58 pm
sinjun
Supply the missing number.
A B_ C_ D 16
A B_ C_ A 10
A B_ D_ B 14
B C_ C_ D 20
6 14 22 ?
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:09 am (UTC)
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18
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:42 am (UTC)
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Yup.
Good job.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:43 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
*beam*
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:14 am (UTC)
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wibbble
16, I think.
Are some of them meant to be 'B_', etc? I didn't find any differences between them.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:15 am (UTC)
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wibbble
*coughs*
I meant 18.
You know, after working out what they all stood for, I added them up wrong?
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:43 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
*laughs*
Yes, 18 is right.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:42 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
*laughs*
the _ is just to do spacing, since I don't know how in HTML. And I'm too lazy to look it up.
16 is not the right answer though.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:46 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
If you put the table inside <pre> </pre> pair of tags, whatever spacing you set will be preserved.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:52 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
Thanks... I'll try that next time. If I can remember it.
What does pre stand for? Preserve?
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:54 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
I think it stands for "preformatted".
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:57 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
That would make sense. Maybe I can remember it that way.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:58 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
*grin* Good luck.
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:01 am (UTC)
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wibbble
Aaah.
will give you a space. You can do ' ' and get two spaces in a row.
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:14 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
*grins*
Cool, thanks. Though how much you want to bet I won't remember this by the time I get another one of these puzzles?
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:16 am (UTC)
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wibbble
*grins* Well, you never know.
If it helps you remember: 'nbsp' stands for 'Non-Breaking SPace'.
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:23 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
Perhaps. I usually do better when I know the Whys ... and not just the whats.
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:16 am (UTC)
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wibbble
And now that I look at what each letter stands for, it's all so obvious...
I spent ages (well, a few minutes) working my way through solving that!
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:45 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
I've no idea what each letter stands for... I just go by differences between letters, express one through another, etc. :)
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:48 am (UTC)
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wibbble
A to D are 1, 3, 5, and 7 - the first four odd numbers.
I started off deciding that A must be 1 and B must be 3, because that was the only integer solution to A + A + A + B = 6. Then I worked from there.
And then I added up the last column wrong. ;o)
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:52 am (UTC)
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*grins* I started with horizonal rows and established that D = A + 6, C = B + 2. Then I got D = C + 2 by substituting letters in one of the columns.
Then from D = A + 6 = C + 2 = B + 4, I worked out the answer. :)
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:01 am (UTC)
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wibbble
I think you did it the quicker way, but my way didn't cause me to get a headache. ;o)
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:06 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
*snickers* Math is fun!
(Except finance.)
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:15 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
Bah humbug!
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Date:
2004-03-09 11:23 am (UTC)
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insaint.livejournal.com
*snugs*
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Date:
2004-03-09 10:51 am (UTC)
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damara.livejournal.com
A=1
B=3
C=5
D=7
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:42 am (UTC)Good job.
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:14 am (UTC)Are some of them meant to be 'B_', etc? I didn't find any differences between them.
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:15 am (UTC)I meant 18.
You know, after working out what they all stood for, I added them up wrong?
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:43 am (UTC)Yes, 18 is right.
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:42 am (UTC)the _ is just to do spacing, since I don't know how in HTML. And I'm too lazy to look it up.
16 is not the right answer though.
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:52 am (UTC)What does pre stand for? Preserve?
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 11:01 am (UTC) will give you a space. You can do ' ' and get two spaces in a row.
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:14 am (UTC)Cool, thanks. Though how much you want to bet I won't remember this by the time I get another one of these puzzles?
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:16 am (UTC)If it helps you remember: 'nbsp' stands for 'Non-Breaking SPace'.
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:16 am (UTC)I spent ages (well, a few minutes) working my way through solving that!
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:48 am (UTC)I started off deciding that A must be 1 and B must be 3, because that was the only integer solution to A + A + A + B = 6. Then I worked from there.
And then I added up the last column wrong. ;o)
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Date: 2004-03-09 10:52 am (UTC)Then from D = A + 6 = C + 2 = B + 4, I worked out the answer. :)
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 11:06 am (UTC)(Except finance.)
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-09 10:51 am (UTC)B=3
C=5
D=7