Math Is Fun Forum

After a long time...
here r some popular puzzles:

24. This concerns a man who designed a square house with windows on all 4 sides, each window having a view to the south. No bay windows (which would take care of 3 sides) or anything of that sort. How is this possible?

25. A certain sportsman, experienced in shooting small game, was out on his first bear hunt. Suddenly he spotted a huge bear about a 100 yards due east. Seized with panic,the hunter ran - not directly away from the bear, but, in his confusion, due north. Having covered about a 100 yards, he regained his presence of mind, stopped, turned, and killed the bear - who had not moved from his original position - by shooting due south. Have you all the data clearly in mind? very well, then; what color was the bear?

26. We can agree, can we not, that the better of two clocks is the one that more often shows the correct time? Now suppose we are offered our choice of two clocks, one of which looses a minute a day. while the other does not run at all. Which one shall we accept? Common sense tells us to take the one that looses a minute a day, but if we were to stick to our agreement we shall have to take the one that doesn't run at all. Why?

Must be annoying for the Mods!

Internal Organs!!!

176. The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren’t looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn’t fit inside the abdominal cavity.

177. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet. No wonder you can feel your heartbeat so easily. Pumping blood through your body quickly and efficiently takes quite a bit of pressure resulting in the strong contractions of the heart and the thick walls of the ventricles which push blood to the body.

178. The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades. While you certainly shouldn’t test the fortitude of your stomach by eating a razor blade or any other metal object for that matter, the acids that digest the food you eat aren’t to be taken
lightly. Hydrochloric acid, the type found in your stomach, is not only good at dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat through many types of metal.

179. The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.

180. You get a new stomach lining every three to four days. The mucus like cells lining the walls of the stomach would soon dissolve due to the strong digestive acids in your stomach if they weren’t constantly replaced. Those with ulcers know how painful it can be when stomach acid takes its toll on the lining of your stomach.

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You first name has my first name in it!
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Hey Bananacreampi!

Nice to have you here

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Works for me!

i still need to learn all that....mind explaining?

I m awaiting your reaction....currently he is 400 posts ahead of you.:D
Edit: i meant 600 more posts

so Kurre

(1 + -1^.5)^-1^0.5?

This is confusing me...

Okay.
i just wanted to help.

it is safe, i have been helped by them.
Can you tell me when you have posted there so i can look over your log?