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YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!

It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read. Be sure you don't
read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste
of time things; it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go
out to eat (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3 Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year, add 1757...If you
haven't, add 1756

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you
want to go out to restaurants in a week)

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT
LASTS


Djrichie
"So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish" Douglas Adams

6*2+5*50+1757-1982=625
Sounds right to me. Neat Trick

"No whammy, No whammy, No whammy, STOP!!"

1984-Michael Larsen On Press Your Luck

That is wicked cool!!!

2*3=6+5=11*50=550+1756=2306-1972=334

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~~Melissa~~
"Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."

don't mean to burst a bubble but.... math trick

Heres another trick:

Pick a card from this group:

4H
5S
KC
QH
4C
5C

Now Think about that card







REAL HARD










HARDER






HARDER





you don't need to hurt yourself








just think of the stupid card








I bet you wish this was over




and I bet your card is gone in here:


KH
4S
QC
5H
QS






sorry, had to use letters because the alt-codes came up as "?"

Thats because all the cards are different in the second list. Good one though

The math one worked, pretty cool.

i've seen the card trick before. but the numbers one is interesting.

but whats even wilder, is how much time is on some peoples hands to think of these things.

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

how clever can that be if you have to put your age in it, and then it tells you your age.

You don't put your age in it, you put the number of times you want to eat out. Read it and try. Just a little basic math if you understand it.

Djrichie
"So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish" Douglas Adams

By putting in your birth year, you are in effect putting in your age.

Joe Potato

That's a pretty cool problem you got there, djrichie.