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#26 2007-10-10 22:04:02
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Lightnings puzzles
Q11. Find the odd man out : Newton, Pascal, Joule, Kelvin, Fermi.
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#27 2007-10-11 00:07:10
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Re: Lightnings puzzles
Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.
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#28 2007-10-11 05:00:40
- Jai Ganesh
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Excellent, Zach 
Reproduced from the wikipedia:-
1848: William Thomson, (1824 1907) also known as Lord Kelvin, wrote in his paper, On an Absolute Thermometric Scale, of the need for a scale whereby infinite cold (absolute zero) was the scales null point, and which used the degree Celsius for its unit increment. Thomson calculated that absolute zero was equivalent to −273 °C on the air thermometers of the time. This absolute scale is known today as the Kelvin thermodynamic temperature scale. Its noteworthy that Thomsons value of −273 was actually derived from 0.00366, which was the accepted expansion coefficient of gas per degree Celsius relative to the ice point. The inverse of −0.00366 expressed to five significant digits is −273.22 °C which is remarkably close to the true value of −273.15 °C.
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#29 2007-10-11 05:03:00
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Re: Lightnings puzzles
Q12: Complete the series:-
A, E, F, H, I, K, L, M, N, ___, ___.
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#30 2007-10-11 22:11:04
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Q13: Find the odd man out.
C, I, V, D, X, K, L, M.
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#31 2007-10-13 04:05:36
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Q14. Complete the series:-
B,C,F,H,I,K,N,O,P,S,U,V,_.
It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.
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#32 2007-10-13 04:33:49
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#33 2007-10-14 01:48:57
- Jai Ganesh
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Identity,
Your answer is interesting and the logic is understandable.
However, that isn't the answer I expected!
Try a different answer!
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#34 2007-10-15 02:25:08
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Re: Lightnings puzzles
um ganesh you have to let other people make up Q.s too remember this is lightnings puzzles not ganeshes puzzles and we already have one of those i do remember me saying " if you get it right then its your turn to make up a puzzle" or something like that...
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#35 2007-10-15 05:00:25
- Jai Ganesh
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Re: Lightnings puzzles
Okay, lightning. I posted the puzzles here because I thought it had something to do with the response, in this case, lightning response, or instantaneous response. I was oblivious it referred to your name. I was wrong. Apology.
The answer to Q13 is all the other letters, other than K, are a letter indicating a number in Roman numeral.
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#36 2007-10-16 07:18:10
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apology accepted ganesh but it's for every one to post puzzles not just me or you.......so when you leave a puzzle and someone gets it right they get a shot ok?
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