Puzzle

Mar. 9th, 2004 12:58 pm
sinjun: (confused)
[personal profile] 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 ?

Date: 2004-03-09 10:14 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] wibbble
16, I think.

Are some of them meant to be 'B_', etc? I didn't find any differences between them.

Date: 2004-03-09 10:15 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] wibbble
*coughs*

I meant 18.

You know, after working out what they all stood for, I added them up wrong?

Date: 2004-03-09 10:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damara.livejournal.com
*laughs*

Yes, 18 is right.

Date: 2004-03-09 10:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2004-03-09 10:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com
If you put the table inside <pre> </pre> pair of tags, whatever spacing you set will be preserved.

Date: 2004-03-09 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damara.livejournal.com
Thanks... I'll try that next time. If I can remember it.

What does pre stand for? Preserve?

Date: 2004-03-09 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com
I think it stands for "preformatted".

Date: 2004-03-09 10:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damara.livejournal.com
That would make sense. Maybe I can remember it that way.

Date: 2004-03-09 10:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com
*grin* Good luck.

Date: 2004-03-09 11:01 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] wibbble
Aaah.

&nbsp; will give you a space. You can do '&nbsp; ' and get two spaces in a row.

Date: 2004-03-09 11:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2004-03-09 11:16 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] wibbble
*grins* Well, you never know.

If it helps you remember: 'nbsp' stands for 'Non-Breaking SPace'.

Date: 2004-03-09 11:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damara.livejournal.com
Perhaps. I usually do better when I know the Whys ... and not just the whats.

Date: 2004-03-09 10:16 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] 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!

Date: 2004-03-09 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com
I've no idea what each letter stands for... I just go by differences between letters, express one through another, etc. :)

Date: 2004-03-09 10:48 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] 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)

Date: 2004-03-09 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com
*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. :)

Date: 2004-03-09 11:01 am (UTC)
wibbble: A manipulated picture of my eye, with a blue swirling background. (Default)
From: [personal profile] wibbble
I think you did it the quicker way, but my way didn't cause me to get a headache. ;o)

Date: 2004-03-09 11:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] insaint.livejournal.com
*snickers* Math is fun!

(Except finance.)

Date: 2004-03-09 11:23 am (UTC)

Date: 2004-03-09 10:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damara.livejournal.com
A=1
B=3
C=5
D=7

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