Re: Math problems you can easily do in your head

On Nov 20, 9:04 am, Mark <blueriver...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 20, 8:01 am, "$Zero" <zeroi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 18, 7:04 pm, Mark <blueriver...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

column A                 column B
________                ________

10                             50
15
20
25
30                            100

Ok, this is easy, so quickly determine the
intermediate numerical value in column B
that would coorespond with 15 in column A.

You have 60 seconds.

gee, i don't think i could answer that one in 60 days, let alone 60
seconds.

Then you aren't a creative anything, because

NEWSFLASH: look up the word "sarcasm"


at a second's glance, it's OBVIOUS that...

In column A, halfway between 10 and 30 is 20.

So obviously, halfway between 50 and 100 is 75.

My one-eyed cat knew that much. I mean, the
conclusion hits your brain without even saying
it in your mind.

Then, in a lightning flash (less than a second)
I see that my comparison number of 15 is the obvious
result of adding 20 and 10 divided by two.

So, almost involuntarily my mind adds 50 and
75 in less than a second getting 125, and in
the remaining liberal margin of ...5 seconds,
dividing by two, I "see"...

62.5

but i _did_ do this logic thinger in my head almost instantaneously:

    IF  2 + 2 = 5

Ok, hold the plane!  Stop!

brainwash alert!

Since I find it expeditious and smart to stick
with reality in my time allocation, and since
mathematical reality uses BASE 10, then,
2 + 2 doesn't equal 5,

"IF"

that's what logic is all about, genius.

"IF" 2 + 2 = 5
AND...
THEN...

see?

If all brown-haired women have bad tempers...
AND...
THEN...

see?

etc..

logic.

it's an IF thinger.

it's a conditional thinger.

and now I race off to something that isn't nonsense.

logic is logic.

that you cannot handle what logic actually is, is not nonsense, it's
simply an indication of the level and quality your so-called genius,
creative or otherwise.


That's your answer.

THAT is NOT an answer.

that, sir, is your brainwash in action.

because the answer to that particular question is: False.

because in that IF scenario, 2 = 2 = 5, not 4.

and there's a consistent mathematical logic to the condition of 2 + 2
= 5, which also makes 3 + 3 = 5, etc..

but it probably takes a creative genius to see it at first.

after that, once informed of the inexorable mathematical relationship
which exists there, almost anyone else can easily grasp the truth of
it.

that is, if they're willing and able to reject the brainwash which
force the saps to believe things which just aren't true.

---
Mark

voila:

IF 2 + 2 = 5
   AND  3 + 3 = 2 + 2
   AND  3 > 2
  THEN  2 + 2 = 4  is...

  1]  True

X ...   2]  False

2 + 2 = 4 is False.

  3]  Unable to Determine
  4]  Logical Cognitive Dissonance/y

 http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/2170a7c6ac73bca1

...

so why can't you?

it only took _me_ a split second.

i was half-asleep (having just gotten out of bed) and was heading off
to take a morning piss when the question AND answer came to me.

-$Zero...

  "Sometimes I don't respond to posts." ~ by Mark
 http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0db5c4b6d6519055

here's some other posts in the series:

"Tomorrow's Zero math challenge" ~ by Mark
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/be3e83aea5bc1b2b

"Math problems you can easily do in your head" ~ by Mark
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0812a0e2065f6626

"Math Quiz Simple Answer" ~ by Mark

"More easy as pie math" ~ by Mark

"I.Q. test, find the lost cat in 27 seconds" ~ by Mark

because:

  "Sometimes I don't respond to posts." ~ by Mark
 http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0db5c4b6d6519055

-$Zero...

translation:
"Questions. Too. Hard. Hurt. Head. Make. Feel. Dumb."
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/0db5c4b6d6519055
.

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