Just received this in an e-mail today. It’s worth a minute but you’ll need a calculator unless you’re some kind of crazy mathematical genius.
How do they figure these things out???
“YOUR AGE IN CHOCOLATE”
DO NOT GO STRAIGHT TO THE END …
Do the maths as you read the instructions
Don’t read the end until you have done all the calculations
1. How many times a week do you fancy eating chocolate?
(Choose between 1 and 9)
2. Multiply that number by 2
3. Add 5
4. Multiply by 50 – go on, get that calculator out!
5. If you have had your birthday in 2006, add 1756. If your birthday is still to come, add 1755.
6 Now take away the year you were born.
You should have a three digit number. The first is the number of time you fancy eating chocolate in a week.
The other two digits are …
YOUR AGE!!!
PS – in an extraordinarily eerie coincidence, right after I wrote the title for this post, the “Superfreak” music video started playing on the TV… I’m scared now.
October 9, 2006 at 11:30 pm
worked for me. freaky
November 17, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Is that an algorithm or a logorithm? Or neither?
To be honest I just wanted to use the words algorithm and logorithm. I don’t even know if I spelled them correctly. Mathematics is full of neat words. How satisfying is it to say Pythagoros, or Abacus, or Isosceles, or Hypotenuse, or Archimedes, or Tesselation, or Trigonometry?
I once heard a not very well-known British soap actor rehearsing his lines and he had to say the word ‘Archimedes’. I often giggle to myself about having to correct him that it is pronounced ‘Ahr-kuh-mee-deez’ and not ‘Ahr-chemidees’.
Hmm…this is one of those things that is pretty funny when I say it out loud, but not so much when written down. Maybe I’ll record a soundbyte with Goooooooders’ assistance and post it on here. Or maybe not.
Mark.
November 17, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Didn’t Ahr-chemidees used to pal around with So-crates?
November 17, 2006 at 5:57 pm
Ha ha ha…you totally get it!
Mark.