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bobbym

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16276

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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

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bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16302

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

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gAr

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi Bobby,

I've lost interest in your number. I'll ask my mother to see if she's interested in it.

12727

That's relatively interesting, but the expression is to equal 13.

That expression equals 26, not 13.

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bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi gAr;

Yes, that does equal 26.

Now I am playing catchup,

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

gAr

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi bobbym,

I was trying to delete that post, but wasn't able to.

Anyway, you missed 16328.

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"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi gAr;

In this thread the post# * 13 must equal the number. That is why I played catchup and skipped that one. This happens when someone forgets to put in an aligned number.

Usually I am the guilty one of getting out of alignment.

So I will skip 16354, to catchup:

16367

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

gAr

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Okay, now I understand what you meant!

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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense"  - Buddha?

"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16393

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Last edited by reconsideryouranswer (2011-07-11 06:01:30)

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bobbym

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi gAr,

That's relatively interesting, but the expression is to equal 13.

That expression equals 26, not 13.

I think that reconsideryouranswer is only saying that my expression should be one that equals 13, not that the answer is incorrect. There's no rule about that, of course.

There's only one written rule: "Add 13 more and post it forever". Then there's the unwritten one about post# * 13 = the number...which we only adhere to so that quittyqat's wrath doesn't descend on us! The rest is open slather imagination, somehow using the number &/or #13.

There are some good examples in the old posts!

16432

Let y = 16432

a = CONCATENATE(LEFT(y),RIGHT(y),MID(y,2,2)) = 1264 (post #)

b = CONCATENATE(SUMPRODUCT(LEN(y)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(y,"3",""))),MID(y,4,1)) = 13

a x b = y = 16432

Or, to put it more simply: The post number (whose digits are similar to four of the post's number's digits - bit of a tongue-twister!), multiplied by the concatenation of the number of occurrences of "3" (which is the only dissimilar digit between the post's number's digits and the post number's digits) and that digit itself (which concatenation just happens to be the 2-digit number that is the subject of this thread), equals the post's number. Eerie, isn't it!?

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bobbym

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16445

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

gAr

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Posts: 3,482

Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi phrontister,

Yes, thank you!

Next is:
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense"  - Buddha?

"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16471

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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From: The Land of Tomorrow

Registered: 2009-07-12

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16484

Last edited by phrontister (2011-07-11 21:46:39)

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bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

16484

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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From: The Land of Tomorrow

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Sorry, Bobby...my fault that you reused my number, because in my last post I used your previous number and then corrected my post.

So...2 numbers to get back on track:-

16497

16510

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bobbym

bumpkin

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Hi phrontister;

Usually I am the guilty one of getting out of alignment.

Never were truer words spoken.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

True...but I claim most of the glory because this time I led you astray.

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"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." - Ted Nelson

bobbym

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

All honor to him who shall win the prize,'The world has cried for a thousand years;But to him who tries and fails and dies,I give great honor and glory and tears.

16549

I do not know what happened there. I have cleaned that mess up, sorry for the delay.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

I'll wait for the dust to settle...!

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

I feel rather cheated, 'cos leading you astray wasn't all that difficult!

Your quotes:
1. Better than whom? Myself at this moment?
2. I'm too young for this one.
3. Only for vain nobles.
4. I'll have to wait for me to die before I get the glory!

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bobbym

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

Someday when you get as old as me...

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

phrontister

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From: The Land of Tomorrow

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Re: Add 13 more and post it forever.

I may already be older than you.

I haven't worked out your age, even though I've read all 1832 posts on the 'How old are you bobbym?' thread.

Can you beat 27?

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Last edited by phrontister (2011-07-12 00:58:33)

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"The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do." - Ted Nelson