Evil Christmas Cracker..

It's possible to make 666 from 24 different sums ..if someone wants to list them all.

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Originally Posted by foobar

Given the range of numbers and the eg answer it should be clear what is allowed and what is not.

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Yes, but Lulu is a runty jerk who needs to win by any way, even if it means going against the spirit of the conetst, if he can find an easy way, a technicality, he'll take it. Also, he's not very smart and "clear" things are not so clear to him.
This puzzle in particular grabbed him because I spent a few minutes on it and didn't get it: Cue the weakling coward to spend time trying to show his googling skills or time available.
Cheats gonna cheat, whether it's on the GF with a whore or with a minor puzzle on the internet.

:)

^ The paragraphs are here. :)

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Originally Posted by foobar

While a digit is technically a single character

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Originally Posted by foobar

it does say: between the digits

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Correct.

Between the digits, as the rules say, it can done in 5.

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Originally Posted by Luigi

1234-567-89+101-11-2 = 666

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Cry baby has to be right....posts are coming.

The aim of the game was clear to anyone with any sense and with any sense of fair play.

Cheats gonna cheat.

Still don't know the difference between numbers and digits huh? :)

I can put one of my digits up my bum.

Just sayin', like. :)

AKA, The Evil Christmas Cracker?

The Bumbassa Digitastic Manoeuvre allegedly.

The Abuja Special baby.

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Originally Posted by Luigi

Correct.

Between the digits, as the rules say, it can done in 5.

:)

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I will allow your outlandish interpretation of the rules as a one time exception. But only if, following your interpretation of the rules, you can post the sum that makes 666 using the least amount of operators? .

I'm not saying it will illustrate who is the better man that is for others to decide, but I will say it's going in your permanent record if Manny gets there before you.
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I wont be asking anyone to post the 1167 possible sums that make 666 under Luigi's rules, as that would be a ridiculous ask.

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Originally Posted by Maanaam

I spent a few minutes on it, failed, and couldn't be bothered.

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Said by mathematicians nowhere since the beginning of never.

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Originally Posted by foobar

your outlandish interpretation of the rules

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:dunno:




:)

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Originally Posted by foobar

Insert either a plus sign or a minus sign or neither between the digits

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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Those are 15 digits in a sequence, where a + or - can be inserted between them. :)





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Originally Posted by foobar

Said by mathematicians nowhere since the beginning of never.

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Ouch.

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Originally Posted by foobar

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Originally Posted by Maanaam

I spent a few minutes on it, failed, and couldn't be bothered.

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Said by mathematicians nowhere since the beginning of never.

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:smileylaughing:


He is an embarrassment, isn't he. :)

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Originally Posted by Maanaam

We had a low key thing...or planned to. Mrs quite likes Xmas and took the day off work for it. I did a small crispy pork belly marinated in Chinese cooking wine and oyster sauce, and roast teriyaki chicken nibbles with roast spuds, garlic bread and Mrs made a really nice tossed salad with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, water chestnuts, baby gherkins, grated carrot, cucumber, sweet corn kernels, boiled egg bits, ham, and other stuff I can't recall. Started with cheese and crackers as morsels to pick on before dinner proper. I had made a strawberry jelly with mandarin segments the day before, and got a litre of half cream to go with that.
Well, with that menu, Mrs asks if her best friend could come and of course I said yes.
The friend then turns up with 3 extra people! The number of mouths to feed just doubled. Amazingly there were leftovers of everything except the garic bread (which was a big C baguette with my own extra-garlicy butter). The pork was superb...surprised it wasn't finished

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Carol Vorderman eat your heart out:)

And to think, that neanderthal is a math teacher.







Well..... not legally speaking, of course. :)

Be nice Lu. Can't be easy teaching special needs how to count to potato

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Originally Posted by foobar

I wont be asking anyone to post the 1167 possible sums that make 666 under Luigi's rules

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Originally Posted by foobar

It's possible to make 666 from 24 different sums

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So the number of correct solutions has gone up by a factor of ~48

While the number of possible combinations has gone up by a factor of only

(3^14)/(3^11) = (3^(14-11)) = 3^3) = 27

Hmmmmm

Very curious

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Originally Posted by Dillinger

Carol Vorderman eat your heart out:)

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3 + 3 = 6

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Originally Posted by Maanaam

The number of mouths to feed just doubled.

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Maanaam, wife and her best friend = 3. plus "3 extra people" = 3. 6 is three doubled...no?

That's about the limit of my maths. OP "cracker" way over my head... :)

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Originally Posted by nidhogg

Ouch.

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Not at all. Simple things amuse simple minds. With twelve numbers and only the two operators, a 6 year old will get an answer soon enough. I don't suppose you by-pass the kids crossword, do you? A bit too boring to be a challenge?

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Originally Posted by SKkin

Maanaam, wife and her best friend = 3. plus "3 extra people" = 3. 6 is three doubled...no?

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Yes. Lu seems to not be able to grasp that.

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Originally Posted by SKkin

3 + 3 = 6



Maanaam, wife and her best friend = 3. plus "3 extra people" = 3. 6 is three doubled...no?

That's about the limit of my maths. OP "cracker" way over my head... :)

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Only if the wife 'had asked' instead of 'asks'. :)


Did Methy teach you English? Christ, I hope he didn't try to teach you math as well. :)

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Originally Posted by Dillinger

Well, with that menu, Mrs asks if her best friend could come and of course I said yes.

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Originally Posted by Luigi

Only if the wife 'had asked' instead of...

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Lets try it your way Lu;
"With that menu, Mrs had asked if her ...."
Doesn't sound much better. Worse actually. Just "asked" would have been better.

Carry on with your poor English (though nobody will be none the wiser) and your childish pluses and minuses that make you feel so smart. :)

Somebody doesn't understand basic tenses. :)


Along with the difference between numbers and digits.



....asks... asked.... had asked.... Just don't ask SKKin, he doesn't seem to understand the differences either. :)



But hey, I'll be kind and explain it. It is Melly ol' Christmas after all.


Had asked (past perfect, or some such tense name - a past action that has relevance in the present) means that Mrs. Methy had asked before the menu was created, thus the menu was created for 3 people.

Asks or asked means that Mrs. Methy asked after it was created, thus the menu was created for 2 people.


Welcome bud.




Knobber below.

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Christ, if I’d posted that you’d be decrying it as boring until 2019.

It should all be dumped onto your canoodling thread.

Guilty. :)