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19:00
And I had another prediction, but I can't remember now o_o
And you've given me spoilers with your profile, Dragon.
Actually @Sid
I am Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, Lord of the Morning, the Car'a'carn, He Who Comes With The Dawn, the Coramoor, Shadowkiller, Prince of the Dawn, and True Defender of the Light:
On review I did find a trick, so it's not just raw maths.
Well - ok - it is raw maths, but it's not just raw arithmetic.
@Mithrandir ... sorry?
You find that out at the very end of book 1.
How did Saidin get tainted in the first place?
19:04
By the time you're a few books in, you'll be amazed to think that you ever didn't know it.
'ts okay, I read spoilers all the time.
As with many things in WoT.
The sheer size of the series puts it in a class almost of its own.
One more person VTC sid's problem, so I can edit it to put the multiple choice entries in it, and reopen. I want a hat. :)
@Rubio It ain't reopenable even with the multiple choice entries.
It is.
19:05
I VTCed it for being a maths problem, not for being too broad.
Check my revised answer. There actually is a puzzle-ish trick.
@Randal'Thor I VTCed as a math problem ;)
@Mithrandir By the Dark One's counterstroke after Lews Therin and the Hundred Companions sealed the hole in his prison.
Ah, okay. Well, at least I know it gets cleansed...
You do?
Spoilers!
19:08
Check your profile.
I want it cleansed.
Doesn't mean I have the means to do so.
raises eyebrow
Or that I succeed if I try.
Well, if you read spoilery questions, it's your own silly fault that you get spoiled :-)))
19:11
There are two maternity hospitals in a town with 50 and 500 beds. Given full occupancy on a particular day, which of these hospitals is more likely to have equal no of boys and girls given probability of boys = probability of girls ? ‪
Law of large number fails in this question^
Neither
Any idea why?
Sid
Sid
@Rubio yes, I see your solution But, it isn't really making much of a difference. In the end, it doesn't matter. I have got to brute-force it.
7 mins ago, by Mithrandir
'ts okay, I read spoilers all the time.
Anybody..?
19:11
4 instead of 9
Sid
Sid
@Mithrandir Want a new Hat?I got a secret hat now
@AnimeshAshish Neither, because it scales.
and you're not hunting wildly for which x each corresponds to; you know by inspection
@Sid how?
What hat?
The probability of equal numbers of boys and girls in a hospital with 2n beds is constant regardless of n.
19:13
@Randal'Thor: Can you explain it a bit more?
I think so, anyway.
Probability was never my strong suit.
Probability is equal, yes -
@Sid What hat?
Sid
Sid
@Mithrandir Blue in the face hat. You just have to post a question that gets downvoted.
but probability of having exactly 50% of each out of 50 trials vs 500?
19:13
Nooo
I have that hat, that's not how.
@AnimeshAshish I can't be bothered to do a huge heap of algebra to prove it. It seems intuitively obvious, but I can't really explain it properly.
Yeah that's not how. I have that hat too.
@Sid You post 10 upvoted comments during WB.
Sid
Sid
No? That name fitted nicely,though..
@Sid NO.
That would be a terrible hat trigger.
You'd have people posting all kinds of sh!t just to get a stupid hat.
19:15
That ! looks remarkably like an i...
Some hats do result in less-than-ideal behaviour, but nothing THAT bad!
Can you suggest me any other chat rooms where people are 'interested' ?
I had a few more questions.
Sid
Sid
@AnimeshAshish I guess Mathematics stack exchange works...
There are two regular hats I'm probably not going to get this year.
@Rubio going for 180?
@AnimeshAshish This is a nice friendly room for chatting about maths puzzles. There are also the Maths.SE rooms, if you want a bigger audience of maths experts.
19:16
Yes. And it's actually valid.
Paul, Sam and Dean are assigned the task of figuring out two numbers. They get the following information:

Both numbers are integers between (including) 1 and 1000

Both numbers may also be identical.

Paul is told the product of the two numbers, Sam the sum and Dean the difference. After receiving their number, the following conversation takes place:
Paul: I do not know the two numbers.
Sam: You did not have to tell me that, I already knew that.
Paul: Then I now know the two numbers.
Sam: I also know them.
I got mine completely by accident.
There's a world of difference between that question without the choices, and with them.
waiting for question to appear in review queue so I can vote to Leave Closed
Let me know if anyone here cracks it.
19:17
@AnimeshAshish I'm pretty sure that's been posted here on PSE somewhere.
I am sorry if I irritated anybody here. Inconvenience is regretted.
That and a dozen or so variants of it.
Yah @AnimeshAshish That's a pretty common theme
I find them at least a little more interesting when posed as a story problem, but they're still not particularly novel.
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Q: Three impossibly intelligent mathematicians

ThreeFxPaul, Sam and Dean are assigned the task of figuring out two numbers. They get the following information: Both numbers are integers between (including) 1 and 1000 Both numbers may also be identical. Paul is told the product of the two numbers, Sam the sum and Dean the difference. After receiv...

I am sorry for the inconvenience caused. I failed to find it. Thus, posted it here. I deeply regret for the mistake made unknowingly.
19:19
@AnimeshAshish No inconvenience! We always like to see puzzles, even if they aren't new :-)
Where did you find it?
It was on a website, cseblog.
An indian made it.
I searched it on the stack exchange app. How did you search the question?
Looks like that question was plagiarised then. It may have to be deleted :-/
Sid
Sid
@Rubio How does this work? "Become Red in the face or hand" (5)
:/
@Randal'Thor : Are you on PC?
@AnimeshAshish I searched questions for "product sum difference" and found this similar question, which is linked to the above question.
19:22
Blush?
@AnimeshAshish Yep.
hm, no can't be blush. ummm
Flush
Sid
Sid
@Rubio The answer is Flush. But, I can't see how you can get flush from blush.
May I know if you're just using Stack exchange chat or anything else @Randal'Thor . Any other tabs opened (youtube/etc)
(Become red in the face) = def; hand=ddef
Sid
Sid
19:24
How is hand=flush?
Poker
Was just feeling curious about the amazing intellects and how they live life on internet :)
@AnimeshAshish ... why?
Curiousity got no reason, it just comes.
Was just feeling curious about the amazing intellects and how they live life on internet :)
19:25
I like that one @Sid hehe
Was just feeling curious about the amazing intellects and how they live life on internet :) @Randal'Thor
Sid
Sid
Here's another one- "Mad Artist receives an offer" (5).
Once you get the answer, explain.
Oh. lol. I just got my hat @Mithrandir ... it doesn't even have to pass the reopen to earn the hat
@AnimeshAshish Right now all I have open is a bunch of SE tabs (three chatrooms, two on SFF, two on Puzzling) and one tab for email.
But my tabs vary a lot from day to day and hour to hour :-)
it's (5) not (6) right?
19:27
@Randal'Thor : Thank you, sir. :)
Sid
Sid
(5) it is.
And it is not what you thought initially.
ok. making sure Mad isn't anagramming anything, that would be cute though
Sid
Sid
@Randal'Thor Do you think that puzzle should be flagged for plagiarism?And it's not too common as a chestnut IMO.
@sid you know the answer? it's not an artist for Mad magazine is it?
Sid
Sid
The answer is Rabid. Now explain to me how we get RA?
19:33
ummm
I guess they're initialisms for Artist and receives, respectively
Sid
Sid
Reversed because? Indicator?
I have no idea.
That doesn't make sense to me
I don't see it at that link. What day, what difficulty?
Sid
Sid
Oh, Sorry.
Wrong timezones... it isn't 8th of Jan at your timezone
19:36
Oh. geez.
Yeah so I have no idea on how that clue works.
I do, however, see "RA" as an abbreviation for Artist. not the foggiest as to why.
so it would be RABID: Mad (def.) artist (RA) receives (charade padding I guess?) an offer (BID)
ARTIST May be a bits-and-pieces indicator indicating the letters RA (for Royal Academician).
so there ya go.
Sid
Sid
I am not convinced by the ARTIST as an indicator. But, then, there's nothing else...
20:00
0
Q: Cryptic crossword clue

user33336Machiavellian anagram of an orchestra section (?) (I left the number of letters in the word as unspecified so as to increase the level of difficulty.)

20:35
@Sid Unfortunately, yes. The idea of the problem is indeed an old chestnut, but the text of that question is an exact copy of the question on the other site.
Since it's got so many votes and views, the mods may want to edit it and/or convert it to CW instead of deleting it, but that's up to them. I've only flagged it for their attention.
21:21
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Q: Strategy for solving Flow Free puzzles

OliverThere is an app on the app store called Flow Free. Basically, there is a grid with a few sets of colored dots, and you need to connect each dot to the other dot of the same color, filling up the entire board. For example: It starts out pretty easy, but as you progress, it gets harder. I...

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Q: Young man Randolph

Iry-HorThis is Randolph, a young man, he lives alone in the tower of sand, where is it!, where's it!, in a terrible place i won't say again, a place where no man can stand!,the roses die with the blood in their veins, the women cry!, all the time!,time cries!, but for how long?, the earth calls!, the n...

21:45
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Q: Take me finally with you, to label your pain—what am I?

Anko Take me finally with you to label your pain for who wants much without me wants it in vain Inquisitors of Spain mark my words and be led wander by my wonders as I stand on my head So curl your last scratches let me raise your voice too for journeying here without me ...

22:21
> Nobody expects the Inquisitors of Spain! — rand al'thor 5 mins ago
22:36
dear cryptiverbalists, is there such a thing as a letter swap indication? for a (very hokey) example, "Ian, Ned - I went out for tea and sunbathed. (6)" for TANNED?
@Rubio Pretty sure
22:56
@Rubio Isn't "cruciverbialists" the more commonly used word?
It sounds painful (Crucio!), which is ... perhaps fairly appropriate, given some of the DDDD CCCCs we've had.
Crucifer valises are specifically crossword people. Cruci for cross verbal for word.
I think it should be "cryptocruciverbalists", since there is no such thing as a "Crypticword" (although that mixes Greek and Latin :/ )
Wow autocorrect doesn't like cruciverbalist.
well I was just having some wordplay fun anyway :)
23:06
Twisted pair might work
@Volatility thanks for the link. that answered whether it must be literal fodder or not, too. (answer: no)
OK, who are some famous (real life) puzzlers?
Any whose names begin with A?
how famous? famous to whom? because I'd consider certain speed cubers famous whereas you may not
Historical figures.
So maybe Alfred Mosher Butts, inventor of Scrabble would work for A?
23:18
Hmm. I was hoping for someone a bit more famous.
Arthur Wynne. Invented of the modern crossword.
Alfred Hitchcock?
Could Archimedes be said to be relevant to puzzling?
> Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of antiquity. He was also a lover of puzzles, which he would devise and pose to his contemporaries.
That's a yes.

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