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12-12-2003, 16:48 | #1 |
Lazy
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Dunno if this works outside Britain but...
Can you figure this out??? It works but I don't understand how!
1. Key into the calculator the first 3 digits of your phone number (not your area code). 2. Multiply by 80 3. Add 1 4. Multiply by 250 5. Add last 4 digits of your phone number. (If you only have a 6 figure phone number add a 0 to the end) 6. Add last 4 digits of your phone number again 7. Subtract 250 8. Lastly, divide by 2 Is this your phone number??? (If you added a 0 to the end this will show up at the end of your phone number) Bizarre. |
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12-12-2003, 17:02 | #2 |
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I got the wrong number Maybe I just pressed the buttons, but I think they just basically let you type your phone number, then just multiply it by a certain number and later subtract the result of that multiplication.. And you have only youre phone number left.. Isn't that how it usually goes?
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12-12-2003, 17:14 | #3 |
Echoes among the Stars
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QueenBee, yeah, something like that, I think. I'm too lazy to put it in the calculator but I think it should work ...
Here it is worked out, Daz if the first three digits = a last four digits = b you get: (80a + 1) multiplied by 250, which is equal to 20.000a + 250 20.000a + 250 + b + b - 250 = 20.000a + 2b divided by 2 ... 10.000a + b, and there you go The 10.000 is just to move the first three digits to the left of the last four ... so if you had 222-4456 (just making up a number here) it's the same as 2.224.456, or 222 times 10.000 ... 2220000 ... and then add the 4456 to get your phone number. |
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12-12-2003, 18:09 | #4 | |
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so we got 10,000a+b lets pick the same made up number: 222-4456, so a=222 and b=4456 ... so now we have... 10,000(222)+4456 = 222,0000+4456 = 222,4456 so, as Rach said, the 10,000 is there to assure a 7 digit number ending on 4 zeros ... So the adding of the zero as the end if it is 3 digits it to keep that... otherwise we would have: 222,0000+445 = 222,0445 - the zero is at the WRONG spot. . if they wanted the 3 digit number to work without the zero they need a 6 digit number ending on 3 zeros... so it should go like this: 1. Key into the calculator the first 3 digits of your phone number (not your area code). 2. Multiply by 8 3. Add 1 4. Multiply by 250 5. Add last 3 digits of your phone number. 6. Add last 3 digits of your phone number again 7. Subtract 250 8. Lastly, divide by 2 Is this your phone number??? ja, I am sure it is |
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12-12-2003, 18:22 | #5 |
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russkayatatu, wow. I thought something along those lines but I dont think I would have come up with it that quick.
coolasfcuk, thanks for clearing up those decimal points. My brain would have been too tired to think and understand the ending. |
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12-12-2003, 18:26 | #6 |
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he he, tack cool
Those were not decimal points - they were instead of commas because what you have 10,000(222)+4456 = 222,0000+4456 = 222,4456 : this 222,4456 is really 2,224,456. But thanks for making it clear As for the thread title, it will work not just in Britain but for any place that has a 7-digit phone number, or actually any 7-digit number that you split up into the first three and last four digits - and now cool explained 6-digits as well |
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12-12-2003, 18:38 | #7 | |
Bitchka
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.. a lot of it comes fromthe fact that in Europe comma is a decimal point and in america a DOT is! LOL ... but that was FUN anyway - thanks Daz and russkaya ... ufff, now i realize how much i miss solving math problems in school europe: 10000 or 10 000 america: 10,000 europe: 1,2 america: 1.2 Americans ALWAYS have to be 'different' |
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12-12-2003, 18:46 | #8 | |
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12-12-2003, 18:51 | #9 | |
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only difference is that 80 is 8 |
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12-12-2003, 18:51 | #10 | ||
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I swear I have seen dots used like that BEFORE anyway, mostly I use commas - actually I thought it would be CLEARER with dots, so much for that Quote:
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13-12-2003, 04:23 | #11 | |
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13-12-2003, 12:35 | #12 |
pie crust
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Wow, you people are just like me. I LOVE staying awake at night thinking about dots. :P
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13-12-2003, 16:55 | #13 |
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It worked for me exactly. Thats crazy.
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13-12-2003, 18:31 | #14 |
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Works. Simple math.
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14-12-2003, 04:06 | #15 | |
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better to use three periods in an ellipsis instead of two. [And man, it was convincing. It'd even deserve its own thread. :P] |
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14-12-2003, 04:09 | #16 | |
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14-12-2003, 15:38 | #17 | |
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Re: Dunno if this works outside Britain but...
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15-12-2003, 17:23 | #18 |
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fascinating!
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