Board 8 > 98% of HEIFERS and 80% of BOFFINS can't solve this PROBLEM... Can you.??

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pls no

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So crying emoji is 2.
Pizza > Crying * Pizza, so Pizza is a negative number. It could be any negative number, but we'll say it's -1.
1/banana + 1/apple = 1/pineapple. For simplicity, let's say those are 6, 3, and 2.

Done.


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Is this another one of those cutesy looking math problems that even a phd in number theory would struggle to fully solve?

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azuarc posted...

So crying emoji is 2.
Pizza > Crying * Pizza, so Pizza is a negative number. It could be any negative number, but we'll say it's -1.
1/banana + 1/apple = 1/pineapple. For simplicity, let's say those are 6, 3, and 2.

Done.

pizza, apple, banana, and pineapple are in the set of positive integers

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azuarc posted...

So crying emoji is 2.
Pizza > Crying * Pizza, so Pizza is a negative number. It could be any negative number, but we'll say it's -1.
1/banana + 1/apple = 1/pineapple. For simplicity, let's say those are 6, 3, and 2.

Done.

weren't you a math major? how do you not recognize Fermat's last theorem

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SovietOmega posted...

Is this another one of those cutesy looking math problems that even a phd in number theory would struggle to fully solve?

No

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If that's what he meant, he would have said that they were natural numbers.

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he did say they were natural numbers

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Only 412 y/o btw

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Lopen posted...

Only 412 y/o btw

damn, and I thought he was looking nice for his age

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NFUN posted...

I hadn't seen the term Z+ before. Apparently it is used in some places, but I wasn't familiar. I had no idea why you tacked that + on there.

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yes she's hot

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Anyway, if the face is a positive number greater than 1, there's no way for |pizza| > |face * pizza|. The only plausible solution was that pizza was negative, but if you're taking that away, then it's no solution.

Which isn't really a surprise, because NFUN.

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Sometimes cute is better than hot.

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azuarc posted...

Anyway, if the face is a positive number greater than 1, there's no way for |pizza| > |face * pizza|. The only plausible solution was that pizza was negative, but if you're taking that away, then it's no solution.

Which isn't really a surprise, because NFUN.

Xuxon posted...

weren't you a math major? how do you not recognize Fermat's last theorem

also, why do you keep thinking face and pizza are multiplied. it doesn't say that anywhere, unless you don't know what commas indicate

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Genuinely took me 4 posts in to realise this wasn't an FT topic

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I like that 2+2=4 is an essential part of communicating Fermat's Last Theorem when using clickbait+emoji format.
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Cavedweller2000 posted...

Genuinely took me 4 posts in to realise this wasn't an FT topic

thank you so much

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I just want to know what makes those boffins so much more successful than heifers at this particular problem.

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Xuxon posted...

weren't you a math major? how do you not recognize Fermat's last theorem

I mean, it looks like Fermat's, but the numbers didn't work out.

NFUN posted...

also, why do you keep thinking face and pizza are multiplied. it doesn't say that anywhere, unless you don't know what commas indicate

Because the symbols are next to each other? XY means X times Y.

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azuarc posted...

I mean, it looks like Fermat's, but the numbers didn't work out.

Because the symbols are next to each other? XY means X times Y.

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NFUN posted...

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he's talking about the crying emoji and the pizza, there's no comma between them. though, there is a comma AFTER the pizza, which basically means it's supposed to be separate from the crying emoji.

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I agree with azuarc that it's not written very well I had to read the line twice to understand it wasn't multiplication

The line where it says they're all positive integers should be a bit higher up to not make it look like you're multiplying pizza by face

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Xuxon posted...

he's talking about the crying emoji and the pizza, there's no comma between them. though, there is a comma AFTER the pizza, which basically means it's supposed to be separate from the crying emoji.

yes

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Xuxon posted...

he's talking about the crying emoji and the pizza, there's no comma between them. though, there is a comma AFTER the pizza, which basically means it's supposed to be separate from the crying emoji.

I'm pretty sure that comma means it's supposed to be separate from the apple. What separates the pizza from the face is...nothing.

I interpreted the first comma as a semicolon because nothing else made any sense. I also didn't spend a great deal of time thinking about it carefully or even expecting there to be a proper solution because I assumed it was just NFUN shitposting.

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azuarc posted...

I'm pretty sure that comma means it's supposed to be separate from the apple. What separates the pizza from the face is...nothing.

I interpreted the first comma as a semicolon because nothing else made any sense. I also didn't spend a great deal of time thinking about it carefully or even expecting there to be a proper solution because I assumed it was just NFUN shitposting.

arent you a math major

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whether or not I'm a math major has nothing to do with the presentation being unclear

whether or not I'm familiar with the term Z+ might, but I learned that as not even N, but W

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azuarc posted...

whether or not I'm a math major has nothing to do with the presentation being unclear

my point was that you really probably should've seen something like "a, b S" before

azuarc posted...

whether or not I'm familiar with the term Z+ might, but I learned that as not even N, but W

youre old

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Yup, growing up in the depression, we didn't even have books. We had to listen real carefully because our teachers only said something once, and if we asked them to repeat it, they would come up to us and scream in our ear so loud it would cause hearing damage. That's why I'm so bad at noticing poor sound quality on songs.

NFUN posted...

my point was that you really probably should've seen something like "a, b S" before

Hundreds of times. MY point was that, although I associated the three symbols immediately prior to the element symbol with the set, the fourth appeared to be attached to what came before it, not what came after.

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azuarc posted...

Yup, growing up in the depression, we didn't even have books. We had to listen real carefully because our teachers only said something once, and if we asked them to repeat it, they would come up to us and scream in our ear so loud it would cause hearing damage. That's why I'm so bad at noticing poor sound quality on songs.

Hundreds of times. MY point was that, although I associated the three symbols immediately prior to the element symbol with the set, the fourth appeared to be attached to what came before it, not what came after.

and so the only thing that would make sense would be that that comma was really supposed to be a semicolon, even though there's a very clear interpretation with it still being a comma?

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If I wanted to stop and think about it longer, sure, I'm able to see what you intended. But I didn't have any reason to take this that seriously, which honestly makes this discussion kinda silly.

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*The fruit are natural

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Psshhh this one's easy:

Banana = 0
Pineapple = 1
Tomato = 2+/- sqrt(3)

Yes I know that's supposed to be an apple and yes I know tomatoes are fruits and not vegetables anyways
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pyresword posted...

Psshhh this one's easy:

Banana = 0
Pineapple = 1
Tomato = 2+/- sqrt(3)

Yes I know that's supposed to be an apple and yes I know tomatoes are fruits and not vegetables anyways

natural

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For some reason I remember learning the natural numbers as being the set {0, 1, 2, ...}. I certainly could be misremembering though since keeping the terminology straight wasn't a detail I would have cared much about.
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nah natural starts at 1, whole starts at 0

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pyresword posted...

For some reason I remember learning the natural numbers as being the set {0, 1, 2, ...}. I certainly could be misremembering though since keeping the terminology straight wasn't a detail I would have cared much about.

definitions vary but sqrt(3) certainly isn't natural

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Or if you were commenting on the other one I was making a very bad joke where since you said the fruit were natural, I allowed the "tomato" to take on a non-natural value. Come to think of it I should have gone with like a beet or something because at least those are actually vegetables.
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pyresword posted...

Or if you were commenting on the other one I was making a very bad joke where since you said the fruit were natural, I allowed the "tomato" to take on a non-natural value. Come to think of it I should have gone with like a beet or something because at least those are actually vegetables.

yeah i read tomato as being a fruit there

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