Math Puzzles -

MeechMunchie · #31 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 · #32 08-04-2012, 05:28 PM

THESE AREN'T MATHS PROBLEMS

IT'S HIS HORSE

Strike Witch · #33 08-04-2012, 06:03 PM

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They were all married.

Correct!

MeechMunchie · #34 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 · #35 08-05-2012, 07:50 AM

Huge hands.

MeechMunchie · #36 08-05-2012, 07:52 AM

Don't forget your units of measurement.

jumper · #37 08-05-2012, 10:58 PM

A hand is a unit of measurement.

MeechMunchie · #38 08-10-2012, 11:15 AM

Okay, here's one.

OANST · #39 08-10-2012, 11:26 AM

No. No, I can't.

Varrok · #40 08-10-2012, 12:46 PM

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

Bullet Magnet · #41 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 · #42 08-10-2012, 01:28 PM

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

***Nate*** · #43 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 · #44 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 · #45 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 · #46 08-10-2012, 10:18 PM

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

***Nate*** · #47 08-10-2012, 11:13 PM

How on earth is it 'Open Range'?

Bullet Magnet · #48 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 · #49 08-11-2012, 01:19 PM

You guys are all so cool...

Wings of Fire · #50 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 · #51 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 · #52 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*** · #53 08-12-2012, 02:21 AM

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

jumper · #54 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*** · #55 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 · #56 08-13-2012, 12:46 AM

moxco · #57 08-13-2012, 04:22 AM

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

***Nate*** · #58 08-13-2012, 04:49 AM

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???

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

OddjobAbe · #59 08-13-2012, 05:29 AM

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