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Questions from our football club pub quiz yesterday...
Logic
1. How many football boots are on the field of play at the start of a typical premier league match?
2. On an analogue clock, starting at 12:00 what is the next time that the minute hand will pass the hour hand (to the nearest minute)?
3. If you have one of every different denomination note and coin in the euro series, how much money would you have?
4. In chess, how many squares is the most any piece can travel in one move?
5. If you are in a race and you overtake the runner in second place just before the finish what place would you finish in?
6. If the average of 20 different numbers is zero, what is the maximum number of those that can be positive?
7. If the interest rate is 5% how much would you have in your account if you deposited 100 euro for two years?
8. In scrabble, which word has a higher score – BOY or GIRL ?
9. What is the minimum number of squares of the same colour there can be on any face of a Rubiks cube?
10. The year 2002 reads the same backwards as forwards – what is the next year from now for which that is true?
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Not bad questions. I wonder how many people were tricked by the answer to number 5? And I should have hoped you'd all get number 1 right.
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Number 1 is difficult if you don't listen to the exact phrasing of the question - answer is 46. (The referee wears football boots and the assistant referees are off the field of play)
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I got that - it was easier though because we had it written down.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: tricked by the answer to number 5? And I should have hoped you'd all get number 1 right.
Dang Pete I was still on the calculator trying to solve. 
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 1. How many football boots are on the field of play at the start of a typical premier league match?
Dunno, never seen one of 'em.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 2. On an analogue clock, starting at 12:00 what is the next time that the minute hand will pass the hour hand (to the nearest minute)?
66 minutes. A bit near five over one.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 3. If you have one of every different denomination note and coin in the euro series, how much money would you have?
To visualize the patterns;
1ct + 2ct + 5ct = .08ct
10 ct + 20ct + 50ct = .80ct
1euro + 2coin + 5 bill = 8 euro
10 + 20 + 50 = 80 eruo
100 + 200 + 500 = 800 euro +
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888.88 euro.
You'd have 888 euro and 88 eurocent in a specific currency.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 4. In chess, how many squares is the most any piece can travel in one move?
That'd be the length of the entire board. 8 fields.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 5. If you are in a race and you overtake the runner in second place just before the finish what place would you finish in?
The second place, or in intesnive care.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 6. If the average of 20 different numbers is zero, what is the maximum number of those that can be positive?
20-1, as at least one of the numbers must be negative.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 7. If the interest rate is 5% how much would you have in your account if you deposited 100 euro for two years?
After the first year 105 euro, the year after that 105,25
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 8. In scrabble, which word has a higher score – BOY or GIRL ?
BOY; Y would be hard to place, while the other letters are more common.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 9. What is the minimum number of squares of the same colour there can be on any
face of a Rubiks cube?
1, if it is solved.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 10. The year 2002 reads the same backwards as forwards – what is the next year from now for which that is true?
2112. The outter two should not be changed, as we'd have to wait a millenium. So, easier to increment the century by one, but then the decade nust change allong; otherwise you'd have your startdate again.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: After the first year 105 euro, the year after that 105,25
After the second year it would be 110.25.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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10.25
Read the question again.
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Quote: If the interest rate is 5% how much would you have in your account if you deposited 100 euro for two years?
Actually, reading the question again, it could be interpreted to say that 100 Euros were deposited each year for two years which means:
100 + 5% = 105
105 + 100 + 5% = 215.25
Or if it means 100 Euros deposited and then left in the account for two years:
100 + 5% = 105
105 + 5% = 110.25
To be clear, it does not ask how much interest you would make by the second year (10.25) which was your answer. I suggest you read the question just one more time. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Actually, reading the question again, it could be interpreted to say that 100 Euros were deposited each year for two years which means:
Nah, that would be expressed as: quote: If the interest rate is 5% how much would you have in your account if you deposited 100 euro every year for two years?
And to be 110.25 the expression would be: quote: If the interest rate is 5% how much would you have in your account after two years if you deposited 100 euros?
But since it says that you deposit 100 euros for two years, means that you withdraw them after these two years, leaving the interest only, that's the catch.
This could of course just be my faulty understanding of English as it isn't my first language, but I've seen this exact question several times before with this exact twist, so I believe I'm not totally off track.
If I recall correctly I have even seen it done by Martin Gardner[^].
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Aha! Well that is perhaps reading more into the question than was there. One of the worst assumptions in answering questions is making assumptions about the question that may or may not be true but are not actually specified. You may be right that this question was asked on the basis of withdrawing the 100 Euros after the two year period, but it doesn't say that so you can't assume that... or maybe you should. The real problem is that the question is as well stated as many clients are with their requirements when it comes to custom software requests so is open to a lot of interpretation! 
Din engelska är bättre än min svenska!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You're having better clients than me.
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Oh, 1, but not when it is solved
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 4. In chess, how many squares is the most any piece can travel in one move?
That'd be the length of the entire board. 8 fields.
The length is 8 fields, right - but the piece occupies already one, so 7.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 4. In chess, how many squares is the most any piece can travel in one move?
7; don't count the square the piece is on
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6 the answer is 20
zero is an even number.
btw, I am relearning stuff like prime factor trees at the moment
useful for rooting.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I am relearning stuff like prime factor trees at the moment
useful for rooting
You have to love Australian girls, they pretend to care about what you are droning on about and you get to root them too. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
I would agree with you but then we both would be wrong.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: 9. What is the minimum number of squares of the same colour there can be on any face of a Rubiks cube?
2.
There are 9 squares on a face of a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, but only 6 colours. Therefore, you will always have at least 2 squares of the same colour on any face.
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(June 12, 1978) Fresh out of Caltech, I started work as a Software Engineer at Beckman Instruments, Inc.[^] (When the founder, Dr. Arnold Beckman[^], was still Chairman of the Board.)
Over time the company merged to become SmithKline Beckman.
Was divested back to being Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Merged to become Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Was acquired by Danaher to become a wholly-owned subsidiary.
And this January, as part of the Capillary Electrophoresis group, was transferred from Beckman Coulter to AB Sciex (another Danaher company).
It's been a long great journey, that isn't over(!).
I've worked with many great people on some pretty cool projects (some ahead of their time).
A positive attitude may not solve every problem, but it will annoy enough people to be worth the effort.
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Wow, have you worked for the same organisations your entire working career, I did not think that happened any more.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Great story.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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A fascinating adventure in the world of work; I marvel at anyone who has remained at the same company for many years, but I guess that, really, the company changed around you thanks !
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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that was cool dude
Bryce
MCAD
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Yes, that is very cool, indeed.
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