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[Frumple]

What's the inattentive student gambit?

Not reading the directions and putting down an answer

[Naturegirl1999]

What's the inattentive student gambit?

Not reading the directions and putting down an answer

i read the instructions, then forgot there was a limit of 3 circles

[Frumple]

That works, too. You could probably spin off a forgetful student gambit, I guess...

[pisskop]

The solution should be

Spoiler: spoilered in pedit (click to show/hide)

a van diaghram of sorts, where you just make 3 circle around the center cat.

I didnt look too hard, but I think thats the right way to do it.

[Kagus]

it has no civilization to speak of.

Strongest odor: Chicken


Anyways, yeah. So there's a social media site where this chick had a profile text saying that if you were to send her a message, you should include the solution to the math puzzle hidden on her profile in the subject line; to prove you'd actually paid attention and read her profile. Otherwise she'd just delete the message as spam.

There was no sign of math in the rest of her profile text, but one of the publicly-visible photos she'd put up was of that cat puzzle. ...and a couple photos later, a picture of the solution to it.

But I thought that was stupid, so I looked a bit more and found some little offside comment about "living the lifestyle 24/7".


Well, "24/7" is of course a way of saying "24 divided by 7", so I sent her a message (only reason I was interested was because of the mention of a hidden math puzzle) with "3.42857..." in the subject line, and basically just quipped about that being "definitely the math problem you were talking about, right? :D"


Never got a reply, but a day later she updated her profile text to include the line "Yes the puzzle does exist, there are no exceptions".

[Iduno]

Speaking of... Would you consider this to be a math problem?

Asking for myself, there's a dumb story attached.

Why is he pleasuring himself to cats, and why is that fact relevant to a puzzle about drawing a venn diagram?

Anyways, yeah. So there's a social media site where this chick had a profile text saying that if you were to send her a message, you should include the solution to the math puzzle hidden on her profile in the subject line; to prove you'd actually paid attention and read her profile. Otherwise she'd just delete the message as spam.

There was no sign of math in the rest of her profile text, but one of the publicly-visible photos she'd put up was of that cat puzzle. ...and a couple photos later, a picture of the solution to it.

Stupid people gatekeeping to keep out dumb people, then giving the answer because nobody who was interested in them was smart enough to figure it out.

[Eschar]

Speaking of... Would you consider this to be a math problem?

Asking for myself, there's a dumb story attached.

Why is he pleasuring himself to cats, and why is that fact relevant to a puzzle about drawing a venn diagram?

Anyways, yeah. So there's a social media site where this chick had a profile text saying that if you were to send her a message, you should include the solution to the math puzzle hidden on her profile in the subject line; to prove you'd actually paid attention and read her profile. Otherwise she'd just delete the message as spam.

There was no sign of math in the rest of her profile text, but one of the publicly-visible photos she'd put up was of that cat puzzle. ...and a couple photos later, a picture of the solution to it.

Stupid people gatekeeping to keep out dumb people, then giving the answer because nobody who was interested in them was smart enough to figure it out.

I think they were just trying to gatekeep people who didn't read their profile.

[Rolan7]

The solution should be

Spoiler: spoilered in pedit (click to show/hide)

a van diaghram of sorts, where you just make 3 circle around the center cat.

I didnt look too hard, but I think thats the right way to do it.

I got that part, but there's an additional trick which I swear I realized on my own (though I didn't bother making the actual perfect circles).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The outer circle is useful - the venn diagram can juuuuust touch it at three points, forming additional zones.  My first instinct was to ignore the outer circle and wrap the venn circles around the outer cats, which doesn't work.

[bloop_bleep]

I love the "Strongest Odor: Chicken" as the goblin attempts to flee in terror.

[Iduno]

Remember a few days ago when we flew warplanes over cities to waste money that could otherwise be spent improving people's lives, because CORVID?

It gets dumber.

[Naturegirl1999]

DSonic meets his robo-twin

[Superdorf]

http://freedomnumerals.com/

That is all.

[Reelya]

http://freedomnumerals.com/

That is all.

Hey man if that gets them to abandon decimal then we can switch to base-12 then I'm all for it.

[Naturegirl1999]

Roman numerals get more spacious the bigger they are, 126 is GXXVI
Roman numerals do not have anything for 0.
There is no standard way of writing fractions in Roman numerals
Out of curiosity I found this, which talks about the various rules for Roman numerals
I wonder if the person writing the article decided to make a new number system? Considering they don’t like the number system used by most of the world (hence why Arabian number system is taught, since most people use it)
I don’t know of other number systems besides Roman numerals, Arabian numerals, and binary, and hexadecimal, (is hexadecimal a number system?)
Well now I’m curious about what, if any other number systems exist that the one who wrote the article would rather schools teach

[Rolan7]

Satire on the internet is hard to be sure about, but I'm almost certain that's satire.  The actual knowledge about other counting systems, the silly way they describe their own beliefs... Frankly, the lack of specific fearmongering and slurs.  The line "And as Americans, who are welcoming and not at all xenophobic" sandwiched between bits of over-the-top xenophobia particularly convinced me.

But people actually do believe the world is round, so what do I know?