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MeechMunchie 08-04-2012 05:07 PM

They were all married.

A man rides into town on Friday, stays two nights, and leaves on Friday. How?

Wings of Fire 08-04-2012 05:28 PM

THESE AREN'T MATHS PROBLEMS

IT'S HIS HORSE

Strike Witch 08-04-2012 06:03 PM

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They were all married.

Correct!

MeechMunchie 08-05-2012 07:42 AM

I hadn't actually heard that one before.

Okay, Wings. If I have four apples in one hand and six apples in the other, what do I have?

Wings of Fire 08-05-2012 07:50 AM

Huge hands.

MeechMunchie 08-05-2012 07:52 AM

Don't forget your units of measurement.

jumper 08-05-2012 10:58 PM

A hand is a unit of measurement.

MeechMunchie 08-10-2012 11:15 AM

Okay, here's one.

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...45944448_n.jpg

OANST 08-10-2012 11:26 AM

No. No, I can't.

Varrok 08-10-2012 12:46 PM

Is the fourth one (2,2) Inception? There's an 'x or cist' 2 rectangles below

Bullet Magnet 08-10-2012 01:17 PM

I think the second one is Joan of Arc, the sixth one is Lost in Space, and the eighth is The Exorcist.

Varrok 08-10-2012 01:28 PM

The 'Exorcist' was dumb easy. What is that dot in the last one?

Nate 08-10-2012 04:50 PM

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I think the second one is Joan of Arc, the sixth one is Lost in Space, and the eighth is The Exorcist.

I don't think it's Lost in Space. A for loop in programming is never referred to as 'space'. It's most likely got something to do with the fact that it repeats ten times.

MeechMunchie 08-10-2012 05:22 PM

I clocked the first one as "Man-Hat-Tan".

I don't have the answers for these, by the way, so don't ask.

Bullet Magnet 08-10-2012 05:59 PM

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I don't think it's Lost in Space. A for loop in programming is never referred to as 'space'. It's most likely got something to do with the fact that it repeats ten times.

My best guess was that those were funky-dunk coordinates. I don't know programming.

jumper 08-10-2012 10:18 PM

3 is Open Range. I'll try to work out more later.

Nate 08-10-2012 11:13 PM

How on earth is it 'Open Range'?

Bullet Magnet 08-11-2012 12:53 PM

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I clocked the first one as "Man-Hat-Tan".

I don't have the answers for these, by the way, so don't ask.

I'd say you do. Manhattan, 1979 Woody Allen rom-com.

STM 08-11-2012 01:19 PM

You guys are all so cool...

Wings of Fire 08-11-2012 01:24 PM

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I'd say you do. Manhattan, 1979 Woody Allen rom-com.

But why is there three of them?

Bullet Magnet 08-11-2012 02:47 PM

That's what the tangent function looks like when you zoom out a bit. Probably so that it fits into the panel.

jumper 08-11-2012 11:20 PM

Also, to make it more obvious that it is the tangent function.


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How on earth is it 'Open Range'?

Just to clarify, by "third one", I mean the one which has D -f-> R. The elements that a function maps to makes up the range (well, most texts refer to it as the image, but I'll let it slide). A set of numbers can be what is known as "open", and this is indicated informally here by the dashed circle. Hence, the range is open, i.e. Open Range.

Edit: the last one might be Absolute Power.
Edit edit: I'd guess five is The Odd Couple, and nine is Transformers.

Nate 08-12-2012 02:21 AM

I thought about Absolute Power, but since when is P(.) a power function?

jumper 08-12-2012 02:27 AM

Script P denotes the power set of a set, which is the set of all subsets of a set. For example, if we have the set A = {1,2,3}, then P(A) = {{},{1},{2},{3},{1,2},{1,3},{2,3},{1,2,3}}.

This is the first time that this information has been useful to me...

Nate 08-12-2012 05:53 AM

Oh, okay. I've never looked in to Set Theory in any level of detail. I've only heard of 'Power' referring to exponentiation.

OddjobAbe 08-13-2012 12:46 AM

???

moxco 08-13-2012 04:22 AM

They never specified the perfume bottles were spheres. Fuck them.

Nate 08-13-2012 04:49 AM

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Exponentiation. You know, xy is referred to as 'x to the power of y'.

OddjobAbe 08-13-2012 05:29 AM

I know, really. I was just joking about all the mathematical terminology in general.