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Rather than blame your inability to be other than a pain in the butt to anyone around and a being lifelong leach in the society's teat on outsourcing, why not turn a leaf and accept some of the blame for your habitual failings yourself and try to amount to something other than acting like a sea anchor to the ship of life in bluebird weather?
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Rather than blame your inability to be other than a pain in the butt to anyone around and a being lifelong leach in the society's teat on outsourcing, why not turn a leaf and accept some of the blame for your habitual failings yourself and try to amount to something other than acting like a sea anchor to the ship of life in bluebird weather?
Why don't you give credit to the Munchkin Man where credit is due and admit to the truth of one simple fact:
The Munchkin Man owns you when it comes to the field of mathematics.
Please allow the Munchkin Man to add that the Munchkin Man is also a former United States champion of a popular board game, one which requires the highest levels of analytical reasoning to play on a competitive level.
If you were to play the Munchkin Man in this game sometime, the Munchkin Man seriously doubts if you could even get a King.
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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Mathematics is not a subject the village idiot is familiar with. He is as qualified in the area much in the same way that a man is with the pain of child birth or a cocker spaniel with theology.
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The Munchkin Man has free accounts on both of these sites.
Both of these sites also provide the checker boards and pieces in their official regulation colors, as dictated by the American Checker Federation (ACF). A link to this organization appears below:
The second playing site the Munchkin Man listed is also the official online playing site of the American Checker Federation (ACF).
An additional problem with the site you listed is that the board and the pieces are not in their regulation colors.
Would you be willing to play the Munchkin Man is either of the two sites the Munchkin Man provided?
If so, the Munchkin Man would be delighted to play you.
Signing up for a free account on both of these sites is an easy process.
Once you get your user name, send it to the Munchkin Man. Then the Munchkin Man will send you an invitation to a game of Checkers on the playing site you have chosen.
Good luck to you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Munchkin Man
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Mathematics is not a subject the village idiot is familiar with. He is as qualified in the area much in the same way that a man is with the pain of child birth or a cocker spaniel with theology.
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As spoken by a person who once wrote the following statement that was read in mathematical circles throughout the world. _____________________
"Order of Operations" is a programing standard or technique (book keeping tricks, to be blunt), and has no place in mathematics'
By Bdgee, June 19, 2007, at 09:19 ______________________
To top it off, Bdgee then invented an "order of operations" of his very own, in order to defend his answer to a problem the Munchkin Man gave to him, a problem that he answered incorrectly, and for which the Munchkin Man provided irrefutable mathematical proof was wrong.
In essense, this made Bdgee the laughing stock of the entire mathematical world.
In the words of one professor of mathematics from Old Dominion University:
"This guy is an idiot or a charlatan."
But that's okay.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Let not your mind be burdened.
Not everybody is cut out to be a mathematician.
The Munchkin Man will close for now by wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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I'm pretty good at ciphering. Heck, I've got 20.....no.....make that 21 appendages I can use if I really get stumped.
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quote:Originally posted by Upside: I'm pretty good at ciphering. Heck, I've got 20.....no.....make that 21 appendages I can use if I really get stumped.
If you are good at "ciphering", then the Munchkin Man has a problem for you to work on during the Thanksgiving holiday.
In fact, the Munchkin Man would like to invite all of his buddies and pals here on this forum to take a stab at it.
Even you, Bdgee.
Here goes:
The Munchkin Man was working the cash register at the 7-11 store one day.
However, the Munchkin Man didn't need to use the cash register.
That was because the Munchkin Man was able to figure up all of the customers' totals in his head.
After all, that's why the store manager hired the Munchkin Man in the first place.
One customer came up to the counter with a total of 4 items.
The Munchkin Man quickly glanced at the price of each one and quickly gave the customer the total:
"That will be $7.11," the Munchkin Man said.
The customer found it mighty strange that the Munchkin Man would come up with a total of exactly $7.11 at the 7-11 store, and without even punching the prices on the cash register.
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed the customer. "How do you know the total of these 4 items without even adding up their prices?"
"The Munchkin Man didn't add the prices," said the Munchkin Man.
"Huh?" the customer said with his mouth wide open.
"The Munchkin Man multiplied the 4 prices together instead," he said, smiling. "And the Munchkin Man did it all in his pointy little head!"
"Now hold on there!" shouted the customer. "You were supposed to add the 4 prices instead of multipliying them."
"It makes no difference," said the Munchkin Man. "The total price will come out to be the same, whether the individual prices of all 4 items are added together or multiplied together."
The customer paid the total and left the store, shaking his head, figuring the Munchkin Man was some kind of a nut. He did not feel like arguing any further with a nut.
And so the customer took the items home, where he proceeded to add up the 4 prices, and then multiply the 4 prices, to see for himself.
To his utter shock and amazement, he discovered the Munchkin Man was correct.
Name the exact price of each of the 4 items.
NOTE: There is only one solution. When the prices of the four items are multiplied together, the product will be exactly $7.11, without any rounding, except for the removal of extraneous zeros at the end.
The problem can be summarized as follows:
A + B + C + D = $7.11
A X B X C X D = $7.11
Have fun!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Munchkin Man
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Mathematics is not a subject the village idiot is familiar with. He is as qualified in the area much in the same way that a man is with the pain of child birth or a cocker spaniel with theology.
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As spoken by a person who once wrote the following statement that was read in mathematical circles throughout the world. _____________________
What a lot of bs!
"Order of Operations" is a programing standard or technique (book keeping tricks, to be blunt), and has no place in mathematics'
By Bdgee, June 19, 2007, at 09:19 ______________________
To top it off, Bdgee then invented an "order of operations" of his very own, in order to defend his answer to a problem the Munchkin Man gave to him, a problem that he answered incorrectly, and for which the Munchkin Man provided irrefutable mathematical proof was wrong.
In essense, this made Bdgee the laughing stock of the entire mathematical world.
In the words of one professor of mathematics from Old Dominion University:
"This guy is an idiot or a charlatan."
But that's okay.
Let not your heart be troubled.
Let not your mind be burdened.
Not everybody is cut out to be a mathematician.
The Munchkin Man will close for now by wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
Posts: 11304 | From: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: Mar 2005
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The Munchkin Man has free accounts on both of these sites.
Both of these sites also provide the checker boards and pieces in their official regulation colors, as dictated by the American Checker Federation (ACF). A link to this organization appears below:
The second playing site the Munchkin Man listed is also the official online playing site of the American Checker Federation (ACF).
An additional problem with the site you listed is that the board and the pieces are not in their regulation colors.
Would you be willing to play the Munchkin Man is either of the two sites the Munchkin Man provided?
If so, the Munchkin Man would be delighted to play you.
Signing up for a free account on both of these sites is an easy process.
Once you get your user name, send it to the Munchkin Man. Then the Munchkin Man will send you an invitation to a game of Checkers on the playing site you have chosen.
Good luck to you.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Munchkin Man [/QB]
Ok MM I signed up...my username is wdcisco....on goldtoken.com...
If you lose you have to change your name to my desire (thats right)!!! If I lose then...I won't vote for Hilary Clinton ( I play fo' keeps)
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quote:Originally posted by wdcisco: Ok MM I signed up...my username is wdcisco....on goldtoken.com...
If you lose you have to change your name to my desire (thats right)!!! If I lose then...I won't vote for Hilary Clinton ( I play fo' keeps)
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Greetings Wdcisco!
Thank you very much for accepting the Munchkin Man's challenge. The Munchkin Man graciously accepts your terms.
You can be sure that the Munchkin Man will be putting forth his best effort, if winning means that you or anybody else will decide not to vote for Hillary Clinton.
The Munchkin Man has already sent you an official invitation on the Gold Token web site.
Good luck to you and Happy Thanksgiving!
Best Wishes,
Munchkin Man
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: What a lot of bs!
Why is it so hard for you to admit that the Munchkin Man defeated you in a mathematical argument?
In the interests of your mental health, the Munchkin Man would advise you to learn something from your defeat and start moving forward with your life.
Today is Thanksgiving. Today would be a good day for you to give thanks to the Munchkin Man for having taught you something about mathematics this year.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Munchkin Man
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I rarely approve of rejecting the open participation in normal society to anyone, but you have proved again and again that you are hopelessly unworthy of anything else. As you have noticed, I am far from alone in finding you and all your aggrandizing claims to superiority to be utterly disgusting.
Simply put, you are simple, both socially and intellectually, and have not the mental capacity to try to amount to anything but being simple.
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quote:Originally posted by Upside: $1.25, $3.16, $1.20, $1.50
hey Up, that was fast, how did you set up your equation?
Pretty simple actually, I googled it. I took A X B X C X D = $7.11 and ran a google search and found links to that exact brain teaser.
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LOL Upside at least you admit it.. i did the same thing after i couldn't think of simple way to solve it..
it turns out it was problem posed in 1999 and was solved using computer programs
so Munchie, don't act you knew how to solve it on your own either. From the Actuarial Review: Multiply While You Shop
The problem was to find four prices of items that add to $7.11 and multiply to $7.11. The unique solution has prices 1.20, 1.25, 1.50, and 3.16. These add to 7.11 and multiply to 7.11 without any rounding.
Gary Venter's solution went more or less as follows. Working in cents, the sum is 711 and the product is 711,000,000 = 26×32×56 ×79. As 56 > 711, at least two prices are divisible by 5. If only two prices are divisible by 5, then either one is divisible by 625 and the other is divisible by 25, or both are divisible by 125. If one is divisible by 625, it must be 625. The three remaining prices add to 86. No matter how the 86 is split up into three parts, the product of all four prices will fall short of 711,000,000. If two prices are divisible by 125, then each is 125, 250, 375, or 500. One of the remaining two prices must be a multiple of 79. A little experimentation with the various possibilities will show that none of these give a solution. Therefore at least three items have prices divisible by 5. So the sum of these three must be a multiple of 5. If one of the three is also a multiple of 79, then it must be 395 = 79×5. But no price can be 395, as can be seen by noting that one of the remaining prices would have to be a multiple of 125, another a multiple of 25, and trying the cases. So three prices are multiples of 5 and the fourth price is a multiple of 79. The three prices that are multiples of 5 must add to a multiple of 79, so they must add to 395. This makes the fourth price 316. The other three are multiples of 51, 52, and 53. Testing cases shows that the solution given above is the only one. Many solvers did computer searches, usually after narrowing down the number of cases to consider. A few used the "Solver" feature of Excel. In some cases this gave the exact result above, and in other cases it gave an approximate solution. Charlie Orlowicz used Solver in a particularly clever way, having Solver find the exponents of 2, 3, and 5 in the prices (exactly one price will have a factor of 791).
Solutions were also sent in by Nilgun A. Akgul, Amy Angell, Ed Bouchie, Oscar Chow, Alfred Commodore, Rosemary Gabriel, Bob Hallstrom, John Herder, Ira Kaplan, Frank Karlinski, Joe Kilroy, Greg Kissel, Blair Laddusaw, Turhan Murguz, Melissa Neidlinger, Rich Newell, Khanh Nguyen, Randy Nordquist, Richard Pitbladdo, Jean-Denis Roy, Nathan Schwartz, Chris Throckmorton, and Walter Wright. http://www.casact.org/pubs/actrev/feb99/puzzle.htm
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: I rarely approve of rejecting the open participation in normal society to anyone, but you have proved again and again that you are hopelessly unworthy of anything else. As you have noticed, I am far from alone in finding you and all your aggrandizing claims to superiority to be utterly disgusting.
Simply put, you are simple, both socially and intellectually, and have not the mental capacity to try to amount to anything but being simple.
Would you like to play a game of Checkers?
Munchkin Man
Posts: 558 | From: Munchkin Man | Registered: Jun 2006
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: I rarely approve of rejecting the open participation in normal society to anyone, but you have proved again and again that you are hopelessly unworthy of anything else. As you have noticed, I am far from alone in finding you and all your aggrandizing claims to superiority to be utterly disgusting.
Simply put, you are simple, both socially and intellectually, and have not the mental capacity to try to amount to anything but being simple.
Would you like to play a game of Checkers?
Munchkin Man
I don't play checkers.
Instead I entertain myself playing with possible solutions to the question of whether or not there is an acyclic continuum M embedable in RxR and such that for some continuous function from M to M, for every point z of M, f(x) is different from x and the question of exacty what restrictions on a connected subset C of RxR with x-projection R are necessary and sufficient in order to guarantee that some subset of C is a connectivity function from R to R.
Somehow I doubt your ability to play in my games.
Of course, I have published partial results on each of these unsolved mathematical questions in the Procedings of the American Mathematical Society.
Have you any publication at all in any respected mathematical journal?
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