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The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:01 am
Here's a little test drawn up about 30 years ago. This is not a trick, there is no weird math going on with these numbers there's no hidden symbols or decimal points. Each number is separated by a comma and a space to help, this is not relevant at all. There are 2 simple rules
1. Add these number together from left to right, top to bottom as if you were reading a book
2. Do it out loud as quickly as you can
Ready? Go!
10, 10, 10, 1000, 10, 1010,
10, 10, 1010, 10, 1010.
What is the answer?
Solution below.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:07 am
Nice trick, that is messed up. I got 5000 first time. And second time. Then I got 4,102 on a calculator. Then I got 4,100 on a calculator.
I don't like numbers anymore, I thought they were my friends.
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:24 am
(September 12, 2014 at 11:07 am)robvalue Wrote: Nice trick, that is messed up. I got 5000 first time. And second time. Then I got 4,102 on a calculator. Then I got 4,100 on a calculator.
I don't like numbers anymore, I thought they were my friends.
I got 5000 too first time. Weird isn't it.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:27 am
I got 4100, what is it that makes people get 5000?
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2014 at 11:31 am by Chad32.)
5,000.
This is why using clculators is better than trying to do it in your head.
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:30 am
I think it's the pattern. After awhile I wasn't really adding, I was recognizing the pattern. When I got to the end I didn't even get an answer at first because my brain was so tripped up. It didn't add up so my brain just quit on me for a second and I to just add it up before I got 4100. Haha This is a good one though.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
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For context, this is the previous verse:
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:31 am
I cheated 
I first added up all of the 10's which total 100, then I added the 4-1000's and added to get 4100 
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 12, 2014 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2014 at 11:47 am by ManMachine.)
(September 12, 2014 at 11:27 am)Losty Wrote: I got 4100, what is it that makes people get 5000?
No one really knows for sure, it is believed to be something to do with how we are taught to add numbers up in columns as children. The presentation is key and having to add them up out-loud quickly, somewhere in that mental process we turn the last 1010 into 1100, which changes how we remember the 3090 we are carrying in our memory to 3900 and somewhere along the line we end up with 5000.
But not everyone gets it wrong. It's not a mathematics issue, even math degree students get it wrong, it's something to do with how we manipulate numbers in our head.
MM
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"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 13, 2014 at 9:41 am
I got 3100, I missed one of the 1000's.
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RE: The Easiest Test
September 13, 2014 at 10:23 am
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This is now officially the thread that has made me the angriest. I feel so dumb.
Just showed to my friend and now feel much better. :-)
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