I AM BORED

[fishki]

fun with the number 8

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321


fun with the number 9

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111


fun with the number 1

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

[gemroz]

I am bored also!!! And still a tad hungover!!

[elkhoury]

arent we all bored this days

[fishki]

Question

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????


I will give you the answer tomorrow.

[cloud945076]

guy 1 = 10
guy 2 = 10
guy 3 = 10
_________
Total = 30
-25 (true price)
_________
5 (leftover)
-2 (bellhop)
_________
3 (change)


25 (true price) + 2 (bellhop) + 3 (change) = 30

no dollar missing

[Guest]

Clouds right. i like this thread.

[fishki]

Kudos to cloud for figuring the addition/ subtraction timing out correctly.

Answer

The facts in this riddle are clear: There is an initial $30 charge. It should have been $25, so $5 must be returned and accounted for. $3 is given to the 3 friends, $2 is kept by the bellhop - there you have the $5. The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking - and quite successfully for most. Each of the 3 friends did indeed pay $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But we know that the clerk will tell us that they were charged only $25 and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the bellhop, you come up with $30.

[twistedblister]

Yeah i hear ya Gem i tucked into the burbon a wee bit too freely last night.

woo hoo really good news for me in minutes potential solution to my life issue in major postive motion .

woo hooo work

[twistedblister]

ok your math is a little fuzzy . i mean what kind of freinds are we talking about and how greasy did they leave the room. come on facts are important man.

[fishki]

Question

You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to. You stop turning the switches, enter the room and know which switch controls the lightbulb. How?



I will give you the answer tomorrow.

[twistedblister]

The term "megabyte" is ambiguous because it is commonly used to mean either 10002 bytes or 10242 bytes

so it goes
1024 MB
1024 MB is a GB
1024 GB is a TerraByte
1024 TB is a either Zeta or Petra byte. damn i have to go look it up

[twistedblister]

Question

You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to. You stop turning the switches, enter the room and know which switch controls the lightbulb. How?



I will give you the answer tomorrow.

ha sounds like a text game.
N
use wrench

eat frog

open grave

kill vampire

with stick

[twistedblister]

The term "megabyte" is ambiguous because it is commonly used to mean either 10002 bytes or 10242 bytes

so it goes
1024 MB
1024 MB is a GB
1024 GB is a TerraByte
1024 TB is a either Zeta or Petra byte. damn i have to go look it up

Binary
Value IEC JEDEC
10241 Ki kibi- K kilo-
10242 Mi mebi- M mega-
10243 Gi gibi- G giga-
10244 Ti tebi-
10245 Pi pebi-
10246 Ei exbi-
10247 Zi zebi-
10248 Yi yobi-

Decimal
Value SI
10001 k kilo-
10002 M mega-
10003 G giga-
10004 T tera-
10005 P peta-
10006 E exa-
10007 Z zetta-
10008 Y yotta

Depending on compression methods and file format, a megabyte of data can roughly be:

a 1024×1024 pixel bitmap image with 256 colors (8 bpp color depth).
1 minute of 128 kbit/s MP3 compressed music.
6 seconds of uncompressed CD audio.
a typical book volume in text format (500 pages × 2000 characters).

found it.

[twistedblister]

i want a yobi hd please ha.

[fishki]

ok are you talking bytes or bits?

[fishki]

nevermind ....both

[twistedblister]

A freaking book man. how powerful is that. my childhood encyclopedia set would now be less then your average thumb stick.

those kimbal things are pretty cool to me. man. i am going to do some short fiction for us. :_)

[Guest]

The term "megabyte" is ambiguous because it is commonly used to mean either 10002 bytes or 10242 bytes

so it goes
1024 MB
1024 MB is a GB
1024 GB is a TerraByte
1024 TB is a either Zeta or Petra byte. damn i have to go look it up

You forgot how many kb go into a mb.

1000 KB is a MB

[fishki]

The term "megabyte" is ambiguous because it is commonly used to mean either 10002 bytes or 10242 bytes

so it goes
1024 MB
1024 MB is a GB
1024 GB is a TerraByte
1024 TB is a either Zeta or Petra byte. damn i have to go look it up

You forgot how many kb go into a mb.

1000 KB is a MB

Not so kat, we are talking memory, or were, which would be binary powers, not decimal powers

that would be 1024 bytes ,this is used when expressing quantities which are based on powers of two, such as memory chip capacities.

1000 bytes , this is common for quantities which are not based on powers of two, such as bitrates.

[twistedblister]

Thanks fish yeah 1024 K = 1 MB but i was more or less starting from a MB so meh. eihter way. still cool stuff.

[fishki]

ya know, you could argue what to capitalize all day KB, kb Kb kB...no one understands do they?
im lost and have been since puters came out

[cloud945076]

Question

You are standing in front of a room with one lightbulb inside of it. You cannot see if it is on or off. Outside the room there are 3 switches in the off positions. You may turn the switches any way you want to. You stop turning the switches, enter the room and know which switch controls the lightbulb. How?



I will give you the answer tomorrow.

wow...tough one.....

[gemroz]

This thread is ruining my life!!! LOL. Love it!

[cloud945076]

how so gem?

[gemroz]

Cuz i have ADD and most things i only think about for a few sec/minutes and *poof* they are gone. But if i find somthing intresting or somthing that peaks my thoughts I do whats called "hyperfocus" and its consumes me for hours and sometimes days So that damn question about the money was eating me up for a day and i had to work for a change so i couldnt check the post till a couple hours ago to get the answer only to find out there is another question that i cant get outa my brain! The good thing about hyperfocus is that it only happens with stuff i find interesting so its not so bad. The bad part about ADD is having to find my keys, wallet, remotes and other things 5-10 times a day even though im retelively organized!! Its a trip!!