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Quote: In 1882, AmerIcan chess player and puzzle writer Samuel Loyd issued a challenge to the public worth $1,000 (which is $22,727.27 USD today ). Out of several million answers, only two were found to be correct. Give it a try, show how to arrange the seven figures and the eight “dots”—.4.5.6.7.8.9.0.—to add up to 82.
Can anyone figure out the solution?
I will post the solution sometime after 10/21/2014 1:00:00 PM EST if no one has found it by that time.
EDIT: Fixed date
EDIT2:
Solution:
A dot over a number signifies that it is a repeater which would go on for ever, as when we endeavor to describe 1/3 decimally as 0.33333 . . . . (etc). With a series of numbers we place the dot over the first and last, as with 0.97979797979 . . . (etc). The remarkable feature here is that a proper fraction divided by 9s (eg. 46/99) is exactly equal to the numerator with the repeater sign followed by the decimal. So, as per the mathematical truths above, one solution is : 80 + .55.... + .9797.... + .4646.... = 80 + 55/99 + 97/99 + 46/99 = 80 + 198/99 = 82).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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As I responded to a Q/A post yesterday...
Sounds like yet another example of the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
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Sorta (I think). I found it in the ACM's XRDS magazine. I did not see the solution (although now that I saw it, I can't figure out how I didn't see it!)
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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A quick search found it, and I find it unsatisfying, in part because we don't use that notation anymore.
modified 20-Oct-14 23:26pm.
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No-one, who learned math after WWII used that notation and most people under 50 never even heard of...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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It has been too long since i have done this but I have the gnawing feeling that the answer will have to do with using a dot on top of the number to signify a repeater (meaning it will go on forever)
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Yup.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Having looked up the solution, that's not a notation I have ever heard of, so I'd have had no chance!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We used that notation at school, cannot remember if it was GCSE or A Level though, but I still use it in the very rare occasions I am writing down a repeating decimal.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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We used a "r" superscript: 3.33r
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We used a dash above the repeating digits. So e.g. for 1 divided by 11 the result looked something like this:
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0.09
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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Ok, but first please explain, I can add up figures but how the hell do I add up dots?
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Googled the answer. I wasn't familiar with that notation so I never would have guessed it.
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956 - 874... Just put the dots in a row so they look like a minus sign.
EDIT: Ok, looked up the answer... That's just silly...
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And she is a monster;
Earths Largest Ship Lifts Oil Platforms[^]
The simulation videos show it in action.
Hate to think how much diesel it burns to power 8 x 11MW engines! Then there is the one liner at the bottom that they want to build a bigger one!
Just think of all the technology and computing involved to maintain the dynamic positioning and synchronising all the cranes as well as all the load sharing in the engines. It is bad enough trying to keep our lot happy in load sharing across the asset.
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Has that thing ever been actually used for its intended purpose, or is this the first one?
Marc
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Don't know Marc. But imagine that the first time they try it, the engineers who designed and built here will be bricking it!
They must be quite convinced of getting work if they spent $1.3 billion building it.
Certainly has a market in decommissioning, and also possibly help to keep costs down in new assets by moving rigs around rather than having to build new ones, i.e. take an existing rig from an old field and moving it to a new field.
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Awesome bit of technology and huge!
DaveAuld wrote: Just think of all the technology and computing involved to maintain the dynamic positioning and synchronising all the cranes as well as all the load sharing in the engines. It is bad enough trying to keep our lot happy in load sharing across the asset.
Probably more than a couple of Arduino's eh? 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Amazing stuff, Dave. Are you applying to drive that thing? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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In her first public speech she opines she was: "the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet" [^].
Yahoo: "1 p.m. ET, Lewinsky had already gained 18,000 followers."
This little coprolite of serendipity further reinforces my view that Twitter is to "popular culture" as Ebola is to virii.
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: reputation completely destroyed
I thought it had enhanced her reputation. 
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A twit became a twist and now she's complaining she's been labeled a twit. The things that make you say hmmm.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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She's know for a spotty reputation, due in no small part to not doing her laundry when her clothes really needed it.
By the way - does anyone think that it would be a good business plan to name a cigar after her?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: By the way - does anyone think that it would be a good business plan to name a cigar after her?
Yes[^]
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