f9c6debb No.3717706[View All]
Regardless of culture, race, sex, gender or creed; humanity survives on it.
The Story of (almost) All Numbers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggOPJ8gafPo d71b90b5 No.3735212
>>3734985There are only 6 (2^3 - 2) possible columns with both red and blue squares (excluding solid color columns). Consider you have only 6 columns (3x6 bar). Either all of the 6 possibilities for non-solid (color) columns are enumerated, in which case there is no rectangle. Or there is a repeat, in which case there must be a rectangle formed by the repeated columns. For the case of a 3x6 bar with no repeats, if you add an extra column (making it a 3x7 bar), you are guaranteed either a repeat or a solid column. A solid column can form rectangles with itself or the 3 possible columns with two squares of the solid column's color. Therefore, with a 3x7 bar it's impossible to not have a repeated column or a solid column and a column with two of the solid column's color, which ensures there must be a rectangle with squares of the same color for corners.
It's a scam, Uncle Joe!Tidbit: If it's known your bar has at least one solid color column, it only needs to be 3x4 to assure a rectangle is formed of the same color squares. Can you explain why?
d71b90b5 No.3735213
>>3735212Strike the 3x4 on the last part. Meant 3x5.
d129511c No.3735357
>>3735207Gray code changes only one digit at a time, so it's not that either.
eca85d4f No.3735364
>>3735357No, of course not. That's why the post said "No doubt it's a special purpose binary only known to caribou furries." Gray code is also known to non-caribou. Anyway, there are a few variants of Gray code.
ad261b00 No.3735645
Monday puzzle time, fuckers! Credit for solving last week's puzzle goes to
>>3735212. Super sleuths assemble to crack this week's murder mysteries!
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-sherlock-holmes-whodunit-1851350706Puzzle #35: Whodunits
1. It was a bright Tuesday afternoon, and Sherlock and Watson approached the apartment building as the coroners hauled away the body. The Chief of Police, Henry Meanswell, approached the men and said: “I know you boys love a crime scene, but I’m afraid your services won’t be needed here. This is an open-and-shut case of suicide.”
“Do you mind indulging us with what you know took place here today?” replied Sherlock.
Meanswell glanced at his watch and sighed. “A man named Diddy Jump was found dead on the front lawn of his apartment building. It appears he jumped out of the window of his studio apartment. His landlord, a sweet old lady named Agatha, found him. She explained to us that Diddy’s wife recently left him and he’s had trouble coping—drinking to excess and causing a ruckus in the building. Poor lady seems shaken up by the whole ordeal.”
“Did you inspect his apartment?”
“Yep, Agatha used her master key to let us in about 20 minutes ago, and it was like a pit of despair in there. Pitch black, beer bottles everywhere, and a stale stench. As soon as we flicked on the light, we saw the suicide note on the bed. It said that he couldn’t continue on his path of self-destruction and he wanted to end it all. Very sad, really.”
“Sad indeed, I suspect we have foul play on our hands.”
Why does Sherlock suspect a murder? ad261b00 No.3735646
>>37356452. [This one was inspired by a post on puzzling.stackexchange by user Puzzlees]
Sherlock didn’t flinch when he saw Mrs. Howe’s body dangling from her dining room rafters.
“This one’s gotta be a suicide,” pled Chief of Police, Henry Meanswell. “The only reason I haven’t already booked it is because of my mishap at last week’s crime scene. Sorry to call you here so late, but I figured I should let you take a look first.”
Sherlock inspected the noose around Mrs. Howe’s neck. “She’s wearing a wedding band. It’s always the husband.”
Meanswell had an eager retort, as though he had practiced: “That was my first thought too. In fact, her kids and neighbors report that they’ve had extreme marital trouble and Mr. Howe has been violent in the past. However, he has an airtight alibi.”
“Seldom such a thing,” smirked Sherlock.
“Mr. Howe works at an automotive factory an hour and a half drive away. Security footage and multiple eyewitnesses confirm he was at work all day and he clocked out at 5:30 pm. Our forensics team analyzed the rope burns around the victim’s neck and used new high quality instruments to verify that Mrs. Howe died by asphyxiation at exactly 6:00 pm. Even if her husband raced at top speeds, there’s no way he could have made it here in time. Unless you think he trapped her in a noose and set up some contraption to drop her while he was far away? Or maybe he hired a hitman?”
“He didn’t need a contraption nor a hitman. Bring Mr. Howe in for questioning.”
Why doesn’t Sherlock view Mr. Howe’s alibi as exonerating? 57e84fa9 No.3735700
>>3735645The room was pitch black but an open window on a sunny day would have left a bright lit room.
The window could not have been open and could not be closed after a jumper.
57e84fa9 No.3735702
>>3735646The factory and the Howe residence are in different time zones. Moving (assuming) east from Central to Eastern could lose an hour. That means Mr. Howe could arrive home at 6pm.
d71b90b5 No.3736142
>>3735645>>3735700>The room was pitch black but an open window on a sunny day would have left a bright lit room. The window could not have been open and could not be closed after a jumper.This. The stale air in the room also suggests the window was not opened. And the "suicide" note reads more like he was committing to sobriety, if it really is his handwriting.
>>3735646Mr. Howe could have met his wife somewhere between work and home and strangled her there. Then he drove her body home and strung her up. When Sherlock inspected the noose around her neck, maybe he noticed bruises inconsistent with a rope. Of course, Mr. Howe could have strangled her with a rope if the murder was premeditated.
2daacc69 No.3736534
Puzzle time, fools! Last week's first murder mystery was cracked by
>>3735700, and credit for wrecking Mr. Howe's alibi goes to
>>3736142. Clever deductions! Now prove you're not an April fool by solving this week's new puzzles.
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-april-fools-day-1851350730Puzzle #36: April Fools
1. A rope ladder hangs over the edge of a ship. The ladder is 20 feet long, and the rungs are each 1 foot apart. The bottom rung just barely grazes the water. The ocean tide rises 3 inches per hour. How much time will pass before the bottom nine rungs of the ladder are submerged under water?
2. What’s worth more, a gallon of nickels or half a gallon of dimes?
3. A man leaves home and takes three left turns. When he arrives back at home he sees two men wearing masks. Who are these men?
4. You meet two girls named Chloe Smith and Zoe Smith. They look alike and you ask if they’re twins. They say “No, but we have the same parents and we were born on the same day of the same month of the same year.” How is this possible?
5. I feel bad only leaving you with gimmicky puzzles so I’ve included one real one. I come to you with a curious observation. I pick a number and if it’s even, I divide it by 2 but if it’s odd, I multiply it by 3 and then add 1. I then repeat this process on whatever the resulting number is. For example, if I start with 5 then the sequence goes: 5, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1. This is because 5 is odd, so I start by multiplying by 3 and adding 1 to get 16, which is even, so I divide by 2 to get 8, which is also even, and so on. I’ve noticed that no matter what number I start with, I always get to 1 eventually.
Can you explain why? This one shouldn’t be too hard, but if you need a hint I’ve supplied one here.
4a0d7f6a No.3736535
>>37365341, It wont. Boats float, ya dingus.
2, Dimes are physically smaller, but worth twice that of nickles. Even though the allowed volume is halved, the dimes would be worth more.
3, The umpire and the catcher.
4, I dunno, IVF maybe.
5, You're guaranteed to make an even number at least every other step. Sometimes multiple. Anyways,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture 619fe088 No.3736576
>>3736534>>3736535I will echo these answers except for #4.
4. They could be lying or instead of twins, they are something else like triplets, quads, quints - you know, like littermates.
74866296 No.3736625
>>3736537
> how'd you get red bold?
Red text works differently than bold text. It must be the first text on a line.
Two equal signs at the beginning of a line and two equal signs at the end makes it red.
aa87e9dc No.3736655
>>3736653
Yeah, a couple.
aa87e9dc No.3736661
>>3736660
Two asterisks in front and two more at the end spoiler text.
a6439f88 No.3736667
>>3736659
Now try it without bolding. :3
aa87e9dc No.3736673
>>3736667He just copying "nigger" from the previous post.
f6f57eb8 No.3737114
Monday puzzle time!
>>3736535 and
>>3736576 got last week's puzzles. No fooling you! Now for the new puzzle.
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-perfect-poker-hand-1851383278Puzzle #37: Transparent Poker
You and I will play a variant of poker. We will spread out the entire deck of 52 cards face up. You will pick any five cards you want, and then I will pick any five cards I want from the remaining deck. Then you have a chance to discard any number of cards you want from your hand (including discarding no cards), place them permanently out of the game, and replace them with any cards of your choice from the remaining deck. I then get to do the same. Whoever has the best five-card poker hand after the replacements wins.
What cards should you pick on your first turn to guarantee that you win the game? If we end with the same hand, then I win.
The puzzle has more than one solution, but one stands out as the most natural. As a bonus,
what is the worst five-card poker hand that you can start with to still guarantee a win? Find the ranking of poker hands here* if you need a refresher.
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poker_hands d71b90b5 No.3737342
>>3737114Reckon the best hand to pick on the first turn is
four 10s and a king. But the king can be any other card really. This should guarantee a win with at worst a 10-high straight flush. And I suppose the worst poker hand to guarantee a win is
a jack and a 6 of the same suit and the three 10s of the other suits.
>>3736776>>3736784Nice.
b3bb47de No.3737669
Happy Tax Evasion Day! Just kidding. We all need to contribute our fair share to keep society running. Anyway,
>>3737342 got last week's puzzles. Now on to this week's new puzzle.
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-tax-evasion-1851405379Puzzle #38: Tax EvasionYou and a Tax Collector sit across a table with 12 paychecks on it. The paychecks are worth every whole dollar amount between 1 and 12 ($1, $2, $3, …, $12). You select paychecks for yourself one at a time, but every time you take a paycheck, the Tax Collector immediately takes all remaining checks whose values are factors of the number you chose. For example, if you choose the $8 check, then the Tax Collector will take the $1, $2, and $4 checks because 1, 2, and 4 are factors of 8. If the $2 check had already been claimed on a prior turn, then the Tax Collector would only take the $1 and $4 checks.
The Tax Collector must be able to take some paycheck on every turn. If you run out of legal moves (for example, if only paychecks $8 and $9 remain, then you can’t take either of them because their factors aren’t available to your opponent) then the Tax Collector takes all remaining paychecks.
What is the largest amount of money you can claim for yourself in this game? 75ca45e8 No.3737695
>>3737669Me Tax
11 1
9 3
8 2,4
10 5
12 6
7
5d53053b No.3737799
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eYrFJI2DzT8?feature=shareThat is 86,400 cents a day,
That is $864 dollars a day,
That is $6,048 dollars a week,
That is $25,920 dollars a month,
That is $311,040 dollars a year.
4aae236d No.3737995
>>3737860Eat the rich!
Only government should have wealth. Everyone else needs to be poor. True equality.
4a685aa0 No.3737996
>>3737990Wasn't expecting Nick to join in, that's wild. 😹
I didn't think much of this meme at first, but it's slowly grown on me ever since this one (and a few others) got me into Out of Placers.
dde23a54 No.3738299
Math Puzzle Monday! Congrats to
>>3737860 for adroitly dealing with the taxman. Now for this week's new challenge.
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-number-that-describes-itself-1851383295Puzzle #39: A Self-Referential NumberOnly one 10-digit number has the following property. Its left-most digit is the number of 0s in the number, the next digit is the number of 1s in the number, the next is the number of 2s, and so on until the right-most digit, which is the number of 9s in the number.
Find the number. Numbers can’t begin with a zero.
An example of a four-digit number with this property is 2020. The first digit indicates that the number contains two 0s, the next indicates zero 1s, the next indicates two 2s, and the final indicates zero 3s.
Bonus: you can seed the look-and-say sequence with any whole number. For example, if you started with 39, then the next entry would be 1319 (one three, one nine). Conway proved that all seeds yield a sequence whose entries grow to infinity, with only one exception.
Find the exception. df1f0316 No.3738895
Monday puzzler! Last week's challenges were solved by
>>3738309. Now on to this week's new challenges.
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-1-percent-club-1851428073Puzzle #40: 1% QuestionsBonus challenge: Players on the show only get 30 seconds to solve each puzzle, so pull out a stopwatch if you want to simulate the real experience. I expect most people will need more time than that.
Question 1: In the following sequence, what do the letters V and C stand for?
V C C C V C C C V C C C C C V C C C C C V C C C C C
Question 2: On a digital 24-hour clock (military time) that displays hours, minutes, and seconds, how many times in each 24-hour period do all six digits change simultaneously?
Question 3:Jamaica + Japan = 124
Argentina + Armenia = 1245
France + Brazil = 23
England + Germany = ?
5b0a0105 No.3739436
Monday puzzler!
>>3739033 got the three challenges from last week. Now on to this week's new challenge.
Puzzle #41: Time WarpIf you swap the hour hand and the minute hand on an analog clock, how many possible valid times can it still display? For example, typical clocks sometimes have both hands pointing at the 12 (corresponding to noon) and sometimes have the long hand pointing at the 12 while the short hand points directly at the 6 (corresponding to 6:00), but only the former example will occur on our modified clock—what time would be displayed if you swapped the hands at 6:00? It almost looks like 12:30, but the hour hand should be halfway to the 1.
Clarifications: The valid times don’t have to be the correct time. Ignore AM and PM, just count the number of valid times once around the clock. The hands move continuously (not discretely) around the clock face. The clock has no second hand.
5d53053b No.3739639
>>3739638In order for the strips to fit on the beads on the abacus it should look like this.
think of it of a spin the wheel game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decagon dede0014 No.3739869
Monday puzzler! Kudos to
>>3739799 for solving last week's puzzle. Now for this week's new challenge.
https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-monday-puzzle-buffalo-buffalo-1851449197Puzzle #42: Grammatically CorrectSome of these are famous questions, so if you’ve seen them before, then please refrain from answering in the comments to give newcomers a shot.
Punctuate the following so that they make sense:
that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
Below, fill in the three blanks with the same letters in the same order so that the resulting sentence makes sense. You may add spaces between letters as needed:
The ____ doctor was ____ to operate on the patient because there was ____.
For example, “I ____ wish my doctor would tell me ____ when she was free for an appointment” could be completed with “sometimes” and “some times,” respectively.
5d53053b No.3740171
>>3740168>>3740170The flash nectar single one is worth 5.4 and if you sold each 2000 of them you earned 10,800 Lindens that is worth 33.7500 in United States Dollars.
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5d53053b No.3740172
>>3740171calculation sucess!
anthropomorphic financial adviser sexy busty female ferret looking at papers
