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    You's Stupid

    What is 9 + 10?

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    Re: You's Stupid

    I only have 10 fingers!!

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    Re: You's Stupid

    Use those toes of yours.

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    9 + 10 = 10 + 9
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    9 + 10 = 15 + 4
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    Re: You's Stupid

    lim x -> 9 f(9) = 9 + 10

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    Re: You's Stupid

    You's Stupid
    I think you might be on to sumptin.

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    Re: You's Stupid

    Well, the answer is 21 of course.
    (Kid's a bored genius and gave the answer in "base 9" without breaking stride <g>)

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    Base...9?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SJWhiteley View Post
    Base...9?
    Ok, hint: Hex is "base 16", Binary is "base 2"

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    Latin for nine is non as in nonagon. ninesided.
    So I guess base 9 would be a non base.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmidt View Post
    Well, the answer is 21 of course.
    (Kid's a bored genius and gave the answer in "base 9" without breaking stride <g>)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmidt View Post
    Ok, hint: Hex is "base 16", Binary is "base 2"

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    I see you're saying the "presumed" dad is asking, giving the numbers in base 10, and the kid is answering in base 9.

    I was thinking it from the other perspective, being 9 can't be in base 9, so the kid is thinking the question is asked base 12, and is answering in Base 10 for the dad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by passel View Post
    I see you're saying the "presumed" dad is asking, giving the numbers in base 10, and the kid is answering in base 9.

    I was thinking it from the other perspective, being 9 can't be in base 9, so the kid is thinking the question is asked base 12, and is answering in Base 10 for the dad.
    Whatever works - perhaps most of us just want him desperately, to be right...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Schmidt View Post
    Ok, hint: Hex is "base 16", Binary is "base 2"

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    Hint: Base 2 doesn't contain the 'symbol' 2, base 16 doesn't contain the symbol '6', so does base 9 contain the symbol '9'?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SJWhiteley View Post
    Hint: Base 2 doesn't contain the 'symbol' 2, base 16 doesn't contain the symbol '6', so does base 9 contain the symbol '9'?

    <sigh> - he answered 21 - and the symbols '21' do not contain any 9.

    So he could have meant his answer as being from base 3 onwards.

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    Hey he was half way to 42 and that's a number of truly epic proportions...

    It's all about the base, bout that base...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruff View Post
    Latin for nine is non as in nonagon. ninesided.
    So I guess base 9 would be a non base.
    So does that mean being able to think in base 9 is just non sense?

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    Is this one of those threads where people only post when they're high ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by szlamany View Post
    So does that mean being able to think in base 9 is just non sense?
    Dunno... we never saw all his fingers...

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    Well, everybody avoided saying 19. So, given this group, everybody immediately jumped to an assumption of the question that resulted in ANY answer other than 19, because 19 is "just what they'd be expecting us to do".

    All questions are contextual. If the context isn't provided, then nearly any answer is right in some context. Occam's Razor would hold that 19 is the most right answer for the initial question.

    Occam's Bong would hold that Niya had the most right answer on this one.
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    buzz kill

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post
    Occam's Bong would hold that Niya had the most right answer on this one.
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    I am so disappointed ... all this talk about base and not one all your base reference... NOT ONE!

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    Re: You's Stupid

    10+9 = 119

    Because:

    a = 10
    b = 9

    c = abs(a - b) * 10^(abs(floor(ln(a+b))) + a + b

    Example:

    c = abs(10 - 9) * 10^(abs(floor(ln(10+9))) + 10 + 9
    c = 1 * 10^(abs(floor(2,94439)) + 19
    c = 1 * 10^(abs(2)) + 19
    c = 1 * 10^2 + 19
    c = 1 * 100 + 19
    c = 119
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    Quote Originally Posted by Justa Lol View Post
    10+9 = 119

    Because:

    a = 10
    b = 9

    c = abs(a - b) * 10^(abs(floor(ln(a+b))) + a + b

    Example:

    c = abs(10 - 9) * 10^(abs(floor(ln(10+9))) + 10 + 9
    c = 1 * 10^(abs(floor(2,94439)) + 19
    c = 1 * 10^(abs(2)) + 19
    c = 1 * 10^2 + 19
    c = 1 * 100 + 19
    c = 119
    This would certainly make the adder component of the CPU a little more complicated.
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    Sandpapertm renders this kind of thread utterly unnecessary.

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    I thought Sandpapertm went bankrupt?

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    Were they short of scratch?

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    Something about the highs and lows?

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    Things weren't running smooth?

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    They should have taken a course!

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    If I keep going does it become abrasive?

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    I heard they kept asking for more and more from their investors for personal gain. Very grity people.

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