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Square roots of randomness.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:09 pm
by piranha
Whats the Square Root of P?

How do you interpret it? There are different ways, different answers.

I think that it's D. Can you figure out why?

-JL and yes I'm bored.

Re: Square roots of randomness.

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:14 pm
by Combuster
piranha wrote:and yes I'm bored.
I thought you had homework to do (at least you had 10 mins ago) :twisted:

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:18 pm
by piranha
I thought you had homework to do (at least you had 10 mins ago)
I do. But It's typing stuff up on the computer (like 15 pages :evil: :cry: :shock: ](*,) #-o )

But it's not due for a while so I don't have to do all of it at once.

-JL

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:25 pm
by earlz
D=sqrt(P);

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:06 am
by os64dev
P 16th character in alphabet D = 4th.
Could you at least try to make something that takes longer then 10 seconds to find out. :wink:

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:55 am
by JamesM
I got that as well. Took me 9 seconds. ;)

Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:21 pm
by piranha
os64dev wrote:P 16th character in alphabet D = 4th.
Could you at least try to make something that takes longer then 10 seconds to find out. :wink:
NEH! OK, smart one, I came up with that at 3:00 AM the night before I posted it. My brain was dying.

And, if your so smart, figure this out:

The Rules: Place any operand you want in the underscores, only +, -, * and / take up a space. Any other operand doesn't.
You must make the 3 numbers equal 6. And you can't modify the six.

1__1__1 = 6

2__2__2 = 6

3__3__3 = 6

4__4__4 = 6

5__5__5 = 6

6__6__6 = 6

7__7__7 = 6

8__8__8 = 6

9__9__9 = 6

It took me 15 min. I got them all except the first (I first did it in 7th grade).

-JL

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 3:58 am
by Candy
1__1__1 = 6

2 + 2 + 2 = 6

3 * 3 - 3 = 6

4 + 4 - sqrt(4) = 6

5 + 5 / 5 = 6

6 + 6 - 6 = 6

7 - 7 / 7 = 6

8__8__8 = 6

sqrt(9) * sqrt(9) - sqrt(9) = 6

Two to go...

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:13 am
by B.E
using the following java app:

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public class Main {

	public static int			NUM			= 8;

	public static final int	OP_DIVIDE	= 2;
	public static final int	OP_MINUS		= 3;
	public static final int	OP_PLUS		= 0;
	public static final int	OP_TIMES		= 1;

	public static double doOp(final double d, final int Op) {

		switch (Op) {
			case OP_PLUS:
				return d + NUM;
			case OP_DIVIDE:
				return d / NUM;
			case OP_MINUS:
				return d - NUM;
			case OP_TIMES:
				return d * NUM;
			default:
				return 0;
		}
	}

	public static String getOp(final int Op) {

		switch (Op) {
			case OP_PLUS:
				return "+";
			case OP_DIVIDE:
				return "/";
			case OP_MINUS:
				return "-";
			case OP_TIMES:
				return "*";
			default:
				return " ";
		}
	}

	public static void main(final String[] args) {

		for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
			solve(i);
	}

	public static void solve(final int Num) {

		double temp = 0;
		NUM = Num;
		for (int x = 0; x < 4; x++)

			for (int y = 0; y < 4; y++) {
				temp = doOp(0, OP_PLUS);

				temp = doOp(temp, x);
				temp = doOp(temp, y);
				if (temp == 6)
					System.out.println(NUM + getOp(y) + NUM + getOp(x) + NUM + "="
							+ temp);
			}

	}
}

I got :

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2+2+2=6.0
2+2*2=6.0
3-3*3=6.0
5+5/5=6.0
6-6+6=6.0
6/6*6=6.0
6*6/6=6.0
6+6-6=6.0

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 4:37 am
by B.E
What's wrong with this ((1+1+1)!)


Edit: for people who don't know, the ! operator is the same as 1*2*3*...n

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:02 am
by Candy
Can you assume that log is by default 2log? If so,

(1 + 1 + 1)! = 6 -> as said just before
log(8) * log(8) - log(8) = 6

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:17 am
by piranha
I don't know about logs, but I came up with:

cbrt(8)+cbrt(8)+cbrt(8) = 6

and yes, it's (1+1+1)! = 6.
Well done, B.E.

This was shown to me by my uncle in Germany. And I didn't get the first one without help, because I was in 7th grade at the time and didn't know about the ! operator.

-JL