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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 25, 2011, 08:54:41 AM »
At room temperature, how much mercury does it take to submerge a 25 cm cubed ball bearing in a 500 cm cubed container?
The volume of a container wouldn't be of any use if you were trying to calculate the volume of liquid that would submerge and object, you'd need to know the shape and dimensions of the container. And since I'm quite sure it wouldn't have been a maths problem anyway, I propose the following:

Mercury is an incredibly dense liquid, depending on what the ball bearing is made of (steel I would guess), it might be less dense than the mercury and thus float. I'm not sure if that's the answer, but I can't think of anything else.

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 24, 2011, 08:34:30 AM »
good job :) i was looking around for hard ones.

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Table Tennis

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 21, 2011, 02:49:38 AM »
OK, the blue eyed people leave on the 100th night, the brown eyed people leave on the 101st night (since they were all certain they had blue eyes, everyone else must have brown eyes; simple step) and the Guru can never leave.
Nicely done, except the brown eyed people don't leave, since all they know is they don't have blue eyes, they could have green eyes.

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 06:04:08 PM »
Anyways, new riddle:

A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians -- if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.

On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.

The Guru is allowed to speak once (let's say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:

"I can see someone who has blue eyes."

Who leaves the island, and on what night?

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 05:53:56 PM »
Would the 2 + 2 x 2 = X be X = 8?
Good at riddles, bad at math :P As sin said, order of operators is multiply/divide then addition/subtraction :)

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 04:44:59 PM »
Is her bday Dec 31st and it's New Years day when she tells you this? Because that would make her 8 now, and next December 31st she'll be 9, but it's still the same year as this New Years Day. Then next year on New Years Day she'll be 10.

I'm telling you, if I think long enough I can usually get em.
Indeed, nicely done :)

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 11:56:05 AM »
Would it have to be New Years Eve and pass midnight during the sentence?
Very close, but not quite :) No need for the day to change during the sentence.

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 10:26:44 AM »
dark matter, she was 7 went into space for 2 yeas but reversed how travel normally works and only was gone for 2 days.
Lol, that's an interesting take on it :P And actually, with a bit of reworking, it could work. If the little girl was staying on earth and you travelled in a space ship at relativistic speed, then time would pass more slowly for you relative to the earth. So when you returned after a year, more time would have passed on the earth. Provided the young girl knew the speed you'd been travelling at (and had a crazy knowledge of relativity for a 7 year old) she could have calculated the relative times you would both experience.

However, there's a more mundane example that doesn't require accelerating you to significant fractions of the speed of light :P

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 10:11:49 AM »
A young girl tells you, "I was seven years old two days ago, but I'll be ten next year." How is this possible?

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 09:38:00 AM »
Ok puffy...didn't mean to interrupt your physics class with my poor math problem. It is meant to be played out as I explained it, not some math problem to be solved for a grade...take it easy
Sorry, didn't mean to come across all prissy :) Was just trying to answer the riddle, and the answer really is that the question is wrong :P It's a neat little bit of narrative that tends to throw people for a loop initially.

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: riddles
« on: October 20, 2011, 08:50:38 AM »
3 men get a hotel room for $30. Each man pays $10. Upon getting to their room the cashier realizes the room should have only been $25, so he sends the bellhop to take them back $5. The bellhop thinks to himself "3 men cannot split $5" so he kept $2 and gave the men back $3. So each man now only paid $9 each...which totals to $27...plus the $2 the bellhop kept...that equals $29...where is the other dollar?
That's not so much a riddle as it is poor maths, trying to add numbers together in a way that makes no sense to the actual problem. Yes each man paid $9, but that includes the $2 that the bellhop kept, you can't just add it again. So $27 in total that they paid ($25 for the room + $2 for the bellhop) and each man got $1 back. So that accounts for the entire $30.

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Feedback + Support / Re: Hilarity
« on: October 19, 2011, 10:55:02 AM »
Which I would imagine would take even more time.
Not at all, would probably take about 15 minutes to knock together a script to do just that. Just ban the IP :)

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The Conversation Parlor / Re: What country are you from?
« on: October 19, 2011, 05:29:34 AM »
Seems I'm the only African around here... I'm from South Africa.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: POLL: What's your age?
« on: October 19, 2011, 05:26:25 AM »
I'm 19 and I honestly feel like more of an adult than most people I know who have already graduated college and gotten careers.
ROFL! Make sure to save that and read it again in a few years :P

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Introduce Yourself / Re: POLL: What's your age?
« on: October 18, 2011, 07:32:34 AM »
I feel old around here with all these youngsters running about.

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