WARNING: Math Doesn't Work!

kannibalkaney · Date: Apr 12, 2006

WARNING: Math Doesn't Work!

Mitch · Moderator

The dollar was lost in the deduction. He should have taken $5 off of the $30 bill instead of deducting that from each of their payments.

EDIT: As far as that goes, that's my guess. He should have done that.

-- Edited by Mitch at 00:51, 2006-04-14

Jena Runner · Do you enjoy this?

i've had a question simmilar than this befor its actually a fluke in our math system. my dad explained it too me once before but i forgot exactly how he explained it all i remember out of the whole explaination is that its a fluke in our math system.

kannibalkaney · Date: Apr 13, 2006

yeah that's right, it's just a fluke in our lovely math system so it just doesn't work out when applying multiplication.

2+2=5 for excessively large values of two

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Murasume · Administrator

The trick to this riddle is that the addition and subtraction are done at the wrong times to misdirect your thinking. Each of the 3 friends paid $9, not $10, and as far as the friends are concerned, they paid $27 for the night. But the manager said that they were charged only $25(which is the amount he has in his possesion) and when you add the $3 returned with the $2 kept by the waiter, you come up with $30. It is all because we have stupid criminals who can't work less than an extra half hour to make friggin two dollars.

kannibalkaney · Date: Apr 23, 2006

yep you got it

but you gotta love watching math majors stroke out over this one

i've seen a few nerdys at school literally almost snap from this one and it's because of how people don't get the concept of that you have to do the math a certain way to get the system to work

if i'm not sounding coherrent right now it's because i'm like really tired and just written a paper from hell

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