Don't tell me your age---but the following math works!

williamguoca

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway---but your waiter may know!
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. |4 |1 ]' X' A2 k$ @>                  YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH
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/ D3 V" L. j3 Q2 f) [" N>                  DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST! It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read.
9 M& J! [$ b6 F/ i>                  Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
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>                  This is not one of those waste of time things, it's really fun.
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>                  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, tried, o also works)
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. B2 d4 g4 y5 o7 w2 ?/ |9 Q% m>                  2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
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- g* l& @! A+ {>                  4. Multiply it by 50
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. d, R) y1 F  a>                  5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1758... ; If you haven't, add 1757.
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>                  6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born;
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  Y7 Y- y& h8 Q. u# E>                 You should have a three digit number
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6 x8 ~+ N9 G8 O0 D# d6 `3 H>                  The first digit of this was your original number(I.e., How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)
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% E2 I# m0 ~' M$ {' ^2 c1 X>                  The next two numbers are
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>                  YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is !)
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2 y2 m  d6 }, q2 y$ b& _9 ]7 y7 |2 Y>                  THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2008) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

小黄

原帖由 williamguoca 于 2008-10-31 16:53 发表
Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway---but your waiter may know!
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' W; {$ p7 z, t* g# U. s5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1758... ; If you haven't, add 1757.
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0 }+ F" K5 r& q1 c8 g' H& n; c3 B* Y无聊，5和6都是问生日的，和一开始的“Don't tell me your age”自相矛盾。
输入了生日，加加减减一圈，最后得出生日，毫无意义。
如果不问5和6，也能算出生日，我佩服你。

williamguoca

Hey, take it easy, Xiao Huang!  It's just a game for fun! don't be so serious ....

chmwl