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Title: Freaky time!
Post by: Warren on July 18, 2006, 01:18:20 PM
http://break.com/index/pick_a_number.html


I promise this is not one of those stare and scare things that are infesting the net.


Maybe you programming whizs can splain how it works.
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 18, 2006, 01:35:43 PM
Simple mathematics. Using their series of calculations, the number will alsways come out right (presuming you do the calcs right).

Brad
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: cosine on July 18, 2006, 01:48:09 PM
Ye olde nines formula.
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: Warren on July 18, 2006, 02:02:03 PM
But how does it know what numbers I have chosen? There is no input into the game. I just keep the number in my head yet it gives me the right symbol. So how does it work?
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: cosine on July 18, 2006, 02:36:25 PM
Okay, here's a less cryptic explanation...

If you take the sum of the individual digits of any two digit number and subtract it from the original two digit number, your final number will always be a multiple of nine. If you watch the puzzle, it gives every multiple of nine the same symbol. So, the puzzle will always choose the symbol that it gives to all the numbers which are multiples of nine, and hence is also the symbol of the number you picked.
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: 280plus on July 18, 2006, 02:59:32 PM
Heyyy, you said it wouldn't scare me! Tongue

I ALMOST jumped,,, almost. Cheesy
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: Mabs2 on July 18, 2006, 03:34:26 PM
It's so small...I can't read it. =/
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: Nick1911 on July 18, 2006, 03:57:43 PM
Small?

Click here:
http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/content/pick_a_number.swf
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 18, 2006, 05:02:22 PM
cosine, how can you spew that nonsense about nines and symbols, and so on?  Are you trying to cover up the fact that Bush's police state is spying on the numbers we think of in our heads, or do you really believe that pablum you're selling?
Title: Freaky time!
Post by: cosine on July 18, 2006, 06:01:35 PM
Quote from: fistful
cosine, how can you spew that nonsense about nines and symbols, and so on?  Are you trying to cover up the fact that Bush's police state is spying on the numbers we think of in our heads, or do you really believe that pablum you're selling?
Oops, my bad. Sorry 'bout that. It was hot today, and I put my tinfoil hat aside for a while.