Your age by eating out

[dbee]

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Subject: YOUR AGE BY EATING OUT

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but

your waiter may know!


YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH


This is pretty neat



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It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read .

Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!

This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.


1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to

go out to eat.

(more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1758...

If you haven't, add 1757.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit n umber


The first digit of this was your original number. ( I. e., How many times
you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)


The next two numbers are



YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is!)



THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2008) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

 

[Propelissa]

Wow....pretty trippy

 

[monkfish]

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2008) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

No big deal. Next year for step 5 add 1759 or 1758. Following year 1760 or 1759. Just adjust that one number, and it will work to amaze people for quite some time.

1. x

2. 2x

3. 2x + 5

4. 100x + 250 (do you see why your original number appears in the hundreds place?)

5. 100x + 2008 (gee ... why does the number 2008 look familiar?)

6. Ohmigosh! When I subtract my birthyear from 2008 I get my age! What wizardry! :lever:

 

[WENEEDLIGHT]

WHOA! I don't care what you say monkfish, but that's crazy.

 

[JerryP]

No big deal. Next year for step 5 add 1759 or 1758. Following year 1760 or 1759. Just adjust that one number, and it will work to amaze people for quite some time.

1. x

2. 2x

3. 2x + 5

4. 100x + 250 (do you see why your original number appears in the hundreds place?)

5. 100x + 2008 (gee ... why does the number 2008 look familiar?)

6. Ohmigosh! When I subtract my birthyear from 2008 I get my age! What wizardry! :lever:

Thanks Monkfish, I'm still trying to figure out that witch/symbol thing one :convinced:

 

[dbee]

WHOA! I don't care what you say monkfish, but that's crazy.

Thank you :yo:

 

[WENEEDLIGHT]

Hahaha I just did this on my roommate and it totally creepied her out!

 

[ULTIMATEgrafx]

No big deal. Next year for step 5 add 1759 or 1758. Following year 1760 or 1759. Just adjust that one number, and it will work to amaze people for quite some time.

1. x

2. 2x

3. 2x + 5

4. 100x + 250 (do you see why your original number appears in the hundreds place?)

5. 100x + 2008 (gee ... why does the number 2008 look familiar?)

6. Ohmigosh! When I subtract my birthyear from 2008 I get my age! What wizardry! :lever:

party POOPer! :rofl:

 

[monkfish]

Thanks Monkfish, I'm still trying to figure out that witch/symbol thing one :convinced:

You're welcome, JerryP.

Not sure which illusion the symbol thing you mention is, but if it's the one I think, the calculation they do forces you into a multiple of 9, and then they give all the multiples of 9 the same symbol so it's easy to "guess." They misdirect by switching the symbols each time, but the answer is always a multiple of 9.

 

[JerryP]

You're welcome, JerryP.

Not sure which illusion the symbol thing you mention is, but if it's the one I think, the calculation they do forces you into a multiple of 9, and then they give all the multiples of 9 the same symbol so it's easy to "guess." They misdirect by switching the symbols each time, but the answer is always a multiple of 9.

It was a Spoofee post and I remember asking how it was done and nobody seemed to know and I guess you didn't see that post. I'll bet you're right - I'll have to hunt around and find it (unless someone else finds it before I get to it).

Thanks for sharing the solution to the "magic".

 

[dbee]

It was a Spoofee post and I remember asking how it was done and nobody seemed to know and I guess you didn't see that post. I'll bet you're right - I'll have to hunt around and find it (unless someone else finds it before I get to it).

Thanks for sharing the solution to the "magic".

This is the link that you were looking for.


http://www.milaadesign.com/wizardy.html

 

[JerryP]

Excellent and thanks. OK Monkfish, explain that! How can it tell which 9 divisible number I choose? The "next" is even worse with the color picks. :verysad:

 

[monkfish]

Thanks, dbee. This is a version of the "multiples of 9" illusion. (I've seen other versions with playing cards, and hieroglyphs).

It's a pretty clever misdirection. If t is my first digit and o is my second digit of the original two digit number, then:
My number is 10*t + o
the sum of the digits is (t + o)
10t + o - (t + o) = 10t + o - t - o = 10t - t + o - o = 10t - t = 9t

So now, regardless what you started with, you've ended with a multiple of 9. If you look during the few seconds they give you, you'll notice all the multiples of 9 have the same symbol, and that's the symbol the movie fades into. They shuffle the symbols each time you run it, so you don't notice.

That's one of the nicer mathematical illusions, and very well-suited to flash animation.