Simplify This
posted by Robert at
7:18 PM
Thursday, December 20, 2007
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If you solve it and want to post the answer, maybe preface it with the word Spoiler and then a few blank lines?
i'm out because you've given me this one before. it's a good one.
me too. agreed it is a fine problem.
Bernie, you mean you know it too? In that case, it's up to you, Frank! Unless someone else displays a previously-invisible appetite for math puzzles...
I almost had this one but my children are bothering me.
A small hint, Becky: there's a trick.
I think it has to do with the abc's, but I'm really too tired to think about it.
I haven't tried this yet, due to a number of factors.
rob, can i answer, based on the premise that i would have solved it eventually last year, if you hadn't given me the answer?
becky, you bet it has to do with the abcs. you never told me you were a freaking math genius. frank, you're getting a little punny lately. i'm just going to assume this is going to pass.
John, if Frank or Becky ask for the answer, then yes. Otherwise no. This isn't about you.
i'm looking forward to learning what this is about.
John, I didn't get that Frank's comment was a pun until you pointed it out. So maybe you're right about Juno's mistake too...
Here's a hint: how many parentisized terms are there in the equation? How do you know that? Is one of them different from the others?
John, if no-one gets it by tomorrow, you can post the answer if you want.
Got it...(x-x)=0, thus the whole expression = 0.
yes, you got it, frank. so act happy about it. your tone doesn't seem celebratory, unless i misread you.
Look, the guy forgot half of high school, give him a break.
I wasn't in any clubs, at any rate. (I think)
Now we're elevating math club to "half of high school"?
Frank: yes.
Just curious, was that a satisfying puzzle?
Joking, joking about half of high school (frank was valedictorian, there you go)
John wasn't valedictorian. Ouch!
No, I was salutatorian.
John wasn't salutatorian either.
i got a b in french because i couldn't pronounce anything. it was my only b in high school, so if we'd had a salutatorian, maybe i would have been one. what's a salutatorian?
I think the salutatorian is the guy who salutes the valedectorian for being so great.
All I remember about you not being valedictorian is how brave you were about it.
rob, i'm going to handle your question to frank. no, no one found this puzzle satisfying, as opposed to my factoring problem, which blew the roof off the fucking place!
I thought frank was a co-valedictorian
that sounds like something your mother might have said to make him feel better.
No, it's what the principal was putting out there- two valedictorians.
I was in the library club. Actually, I started the library club. I was the president and the members were my sister and my two friends and this girl nobody liked.
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