Dunno if this works outside Britain but...

[DAZ]

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.

[QueenBee]

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?

[russkayatatu]

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.

[coolasfcuk]

Originally posted by russkayatatu
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.

good job russkaya .. he he... i think at the end you didnt explain as clear ... cause you put two decimal points ...so hope you dont mind if i say it again, ja?

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

[Lena410]

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.

[russkayatatu]

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

[coolasfcuk]

Originally posted by russkayatatu
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

lol baaaaaaaaaaah Yeah LOL but i guess it just looks clearer with using only one comma instead of 2 dots ... i never use more than one anyway ... but i did get what you were saying

.. 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'

[QueenBee]

it will work not just in Britain but for any place that has a 7-digit phone number

Oh, well, that explains it. I have only 6 digits.

[coolasfcuk]

Originally posted by QueenBee
Oh, well, that explains it. I have only 6 digits.

Queenie do MINE for 6 digit

only difference is that 80 is 8

[russkayatatu]

i guess it just looks clearer with using only one comma instead of 2 dots

yeah, LoL, obviously it does so sorrrrrrry about that

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

Americans ALWAYS have to be 'different'

Ha ha, yeah eh heee, not sure how to take this, so I think I'll decide it's a good thing

[shizzo]

Originally posted by russkayatatu
I swear I have seen dots used like that BEFORE

Me, too. I just can't precisely remember where or why.



This is going to keep me awake tonight.

[QueenBee]

Wow, you people are just like me. I LOVE staying awake at night thinking about dots. :P

[ypsidan04]

It worked for me exactly. Thats crazy.

[freddie]

Works. Simple math.

[shizzo]

Originally posted by QueenBee
Wow, you people are just like me. I LOVE staying awake at night thinking about dots. :P

I stayed awake once contemplating the reasons why it's
better to use three periods in an ellipsis instead of two.

[And man, it was convincing. It'd even deserve its own thread. :P]

[taty994945]

I stayed awake once contemplating the reasons why it's better to use three periods in an ellipsis instead of two.

I thought I was the only one!

[LenochkaO]

Originally posted by DAZ
Can you figure this out??? It works but I don't understand how!
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.

V.bizarre. Works for Japan too!

[crni]

fascinating!