Scary news from A Voice for Men. On their front page right now:
So Sweden is Nazi Germany?
This is a little confusing to me, because, according to what I’ve always considered the most trusted and reliable source of Swedish information, Sweden is actually Napoleonic France.
Unfortunately, my only other real source for information on Sweden is not much help either, as it seems to suggest that Sweden is … the Mojave desert?
2x + 3y = 10 ?
Give me a minute to find some paper, mmm, matrix math!
Stoner, You know we can just Google the answer, right? Do you have a point?
Your equations are invalid:
a) 2x + 3y = 10
b) 7x + 2y = 63
c) 6x + 5y = 66
d) 8x + 4y = 96
Divide them all by two:
a) 1x + 1.5y = 5
b) 3.5x + 1y = 31.5
c) 3x + 2.5y = 33
d) 4x + 2y = 48
Add a and c:
4x + 4y = 38
Divide that and d by two:
4x + 4y = 38 becomes 2x + 2y = 19
4x + 2y = 48 becomes 2x + 1y = 24
Subtract:
2x + 2y = 19
2x + 1y = 24
0x + 1y = -5 or rather y = -5
Calculate x using that:
6x + 5(-5) = 66
6x – 25 = 66
6x = 91
x = 15 1/8
Attempt to confirm that on a (or any other):
3(15.167) + 2(-5) = 10
45 3/8 – 10 =/= 10 it equals 35 3/8
So, just what were you going for there?
Cloudiah, I kind of figured it had to be representational, but use some variables then! Wtf he gave is one removed equal sign away from being a matrix!
It’s not really math, it’s just a puzzle. But since all of these puzzles are now on the internet, it’s a fairly stupid one. He could have changed it up some, created his own, but no, this is some lazy trolling.
Speaking of lazy, what am I still doing in my pajamas? It’s almost noon!
Stick some question marks in there, mark it as a logic puzzle, do something to make it not a matrix (I like matrices damnit!)
Yeah I get that, I enjoy breaking stupid math though — it isn’t meant as math, but it’s presented as math, and lack of clarity won’t get you anywhere 🙂
@Cloudiah, RE:DriverSuz
I don’t know why that bit of the admission made me laugh so much…
Oh, really…
@Argenti: it may not just be x and y, there could be other variables in there too. It’s too stupid to be a math puzzle:
only one number appears in more than one equation
there is no logic to explain how the numbers relate to each other algebraically.
MRAs: misunderstanding math as well as logic.
@cloudiah: reading her blurb at the end, it says she’s “married to a very patient man.” Guess she’s the only MRA of the two. /facepalm
@emittnervend: That’s funny! Haven’t seen that movie, but… there was a journalist who actually wrote negatively about the play; he wrote that a theatre group would never get away with doing a play about anti-semitism and place all the Jews in the audience in a special section. Me and Husband discussed that and agreed that it’s not analogous, because Jews aren’t a privileged group… to get a racial/ethnic analogy you gotta imagine an underprivileged group, like, say, black people, setting up a play where they put the white part of the audience in a special department and then throw anti-white racial slurs at them… but coming this far in our musings, we had to agree that we could totally see this happening, and people embracing it. White journalists writing rave-reviews about this wonderful new play that totally gives white people a fresh perspective at racism.
I decided to treat it as a matrix, which should have more columns if ore variables, except it’s apparently:
(2+3)*2=10
Etc, as in (#x + #y) * #x = solution
Except genius here neither marked it as a logic puzzle, nor realized it could be read other ways (I love matrices, I’d take just 2 3 10 really, but I’m weird ^.^ )
@Argenti, it’s one of those “I pulled this maths puzzle out of my arse and you’re all stupid if you can’t work it out.” There’s no talent in creating one of those. Gratz on working it out, though, I was looking at it as simultaneous equations….
Silly maths example:
a “+” b = a^2 + a*b
So 9 “+” 7 = 81 + 63 =144
And being able to solve that charming little puzzle proves what, precisely?
@titianblue: you win! I’m not sure what you win, but you win!!!!ELEVENTY!1!!!
Damn, ninja’d by Argenti.
Thanks, Kiwi Girl, I’ll take a magical pug to go, please.
@Dvärghundspossen
That has to be the stupidest argument against the play (the critic’s that is, not you and your husband’s). Like you said, it would have to be the antisemites that are in a special section in order for it to be analogous. Clearly the critic missed the whole point of the play in the first place, though I do agree with you about the inefficacy of putting men in a special section and hurling invectives at them, not least because they are there voluntarily.
Re: Driversuz
Did anyone actually understand the point of that article? Because that blurb just confused the shit out of me. “I’m here to defend this cardboard cutout of men because it can’t defend itself (probably because it’s made of cardboard)” :S I mean, it was ridiculous enough when we thought it was actually about her son.
I can do our troll one better:
If a tree falls in the forest, and then bounces back up as a joke, do the squirrels freak out?
(Due credit – I stole that from a greeting card)
Yeah, Shadow, except I’d add “I’m here to defend this cardboard cutout of men by attacking cardboard cutouts of women.” And what does it say that she doesn’t think her actual son is worthy of being written about?
What was the point of all that supposed maths bonehead posted? People who can do maths/logic puzzles tore it apart, those who can’t simply ignored it and said he was trying (unsuccessfully, evidently) a wanky little show-off again.
I think the answer is supposed to be “gross”… (nine squared plus nine sevens)
Not much of a challenge, seeing as the use of the plus operand was clearly not functioning as addition, so other guesses swiftly pointed to the answer. Would have been more interesting in a non-standard base, just to fuck with people’s heads (but all 10 normal digits were obviously in play also). Disappointingly simple, meh. What was this supposed to demonstrate, again?
Maths! It’s science! 🙂
Nah, that bonehead is a wannabe maths snob/wit. He fails on both counts.
More interesting than him, I just saw that the beautiful Jon Finch has passed over – did anyone see him as MacBeth in Polanski’s film, or as Henry IV in the BBC’s Shakespeare cycle? Vale to a fine actor.