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#26 2014-03-18 15:20:56
- eigenguy
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
A minor alternative that can make the calculus a little easier:
Question: it was pretty easy to guess how to hide the solution, but how do you get alternative text other "Hidden Text"?
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#27 2014-03-19 01:31:25
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Hi eigenguy,
...how do you get alternative text other "Hidden Text"?
After "[hide", type "=", followed immediately by the text of your choice and the closing bracket ']'.
Here...I'll try it with "minor alternative" in the hide box:
Just click on 'Quote' in the bottom right-hand corner of my post to see what I did.
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#28 2014-03-19 03:26:27
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Thanks, I had no idea how to do it either.
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#30 2014-03-19 08:19:13
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#31 2014-03-19 08:22:18
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#32 2014-03-19 09:57:19
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#33 2014-03-19 12:11:32
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
After "[hide", type "=", followed immediately by the text of your choice and the closing bracket ']'.
Thanks!
It's been a while since been in a forum. It's embarrassing that I'd forgotten about the quote trick!
Nice!
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#34 2014-03-19 13:52:59
Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Yet another one: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 252AAAD3pA
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#35 2014-03-19 14:36:07
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Hi;
Did you see my completely original answer. I trust that JFF would like it.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#36 2014-03-19 22:26:40
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense" - Buddha?
"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
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#37 2014-03-20 01:07:59
Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Hi;
Did you see my completely original answer. I trust that JFF would like it.
Is it not the same thing I posted?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#39 2014-03-22 04:23:17
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Hi;
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#40 2014-03-22 06:04:48
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Can I remind everyone that the title of this thread is Easy puzzle challenge. Therefore if your solution is messy and complicated, youre on the wrong tack.
Yet, that's harder than what's shown in #31
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"Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
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#41 2014-03-22 07:14:25
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
I guess DeMoivre's and Vieta's is a bit of an overkill but maths is all about solving problems in different ways.
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#42 2014-03-22 13:11:38
Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Can I remind everyone that the title of this thread is Easy puzzle challenge. Therefore if your solution is messy and complicated, youre on the wrong tack.
You think that is easy?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#43 2014-03-22 13:47:50
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
Yeah, proofs of even simple results can sometimes be a bit messy.
Still true today as it was then. Anyway, how about another problem.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#45 2014-03-26 01:01:09
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
You'd better add "monic" to your description of f, or else it can't be proved, since for any a, af(x) is another polynomial with the same roots.
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#48 2015-05-18 19:21:12
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Re: Easy puzzle challenge
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#50 2015-05-27 01:39:08
Re: Easy puzzle challenge
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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