Most value me above their brain
or seek me for arms that are great
Maxwell introduced me yet again
As did Ward, though a century late
One word and the cloud I will reach you
or get to your house on the ice
If I'm not being shot by the beach dudes
I'll be playing with
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You have 2 lengths of fuse that are guaranteed to burn for precisely 1 hour each. Other than that fact, you know nothing; they may burn at different (indeed, at variable) rates, they may be of different lengths, thick nesses, materials, etc. How can you use these two fuses to time a 45 minute interval?
I quoted you, Hugh, (without naming) here from chat: "She's a numbers girl and she's half serious so every second word of the message is actually a number." Thoucht it is a good hint, even after the solution appeared.
I spent about 45m, last night, looking up things, for it. I was sure the answer was 'matter', at first, but while I was doing research I ran into information on curls.
oh my god there's an answer on a question that is so beautiful in its purposeful badness that I want to vote it up, but so heinous in its attendant opinions that I want to vote it down
easy peasy:
U p E p I p p E
I p A U p I p p E
p E p A p A p E p Y
p E p E p p A p I O p
p O p p E p p A p O p Y
FYI: "Y" is not considered a vowel in civilized parts of the world.
might be the beginning of a series of puzzles where the goal is to fill in the puzzle. wasn't there another rececent one about the number of words in the answer?
The answer to this complex algorithm is shown below:
The power level of our Warden Savior x The gassy meter of the human fart which, of course, equals The perimeter of the Sun
*. The solution was found by going to page 442 of the Holt Math Book Pre-Algebra edition. I highly recommend checking it out. I personally use it everyday to get me through my college years."
And one of the reviewed answers is someone trying to delete a "non-answer" comment, because the user is declaring that this Gamow puzzle is plagiarized. Heh
Two cells in a 2016×2016 table are said to be interconnected, if they are in the same row or in the same column of the table. No cell is interconnected with itself. There are r cells in the table that are colored red, and each of the 20162 cells in the table is interconnected with at least two red cells.
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Let $m$ be a positive integer. Consider a $4m\times 4m$ array of square unit cells. Two different cells are related to each other if they are in either the same row or in the same column.No cell is related to itself.Some cells are coloured blue, such that every cell is related to at lest two blue cells.Determine the minimum number of blue cells.
I know - but someone's trying to delete the comment declaring it as plagiarised, just because it's not an answer.
yeah, I didn't read that one as "declaring it plagiarized" (though I definitely see that now), I just read it as being like "I seen this question before. The answer is here: [link]"
which... that's obviously not how we like our answers, but I skipped reviewing it, so as not to raise anyone's ire