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choclate maths.... (yum)

  • 31-05-2004 11:50am
    #1
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,504 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    humor or not, cant think of where else this should go,

    enjoy....



    Chocolate Maths
    >
    >1. First, pick the number of times a week you would like to have
    >chocolate (try for more than once but less than ten)
    >
    >2. Multiply this number by 2
    >
    >3. Add 5
    >
    >4. Multiply it by 50 (we'll wait while you get the
    >calculator........................)
    >
    >5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1754........
    >if you haven't, add 1753
    >
    >6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. You should
    >now have a three digit number.
    >
    >The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many
    >times you want chocolate each week).
    >
    >The next two numbers are ............ YOUR AGE (Oh YES, IT
    >IS!!!!!!!!!)
    >
    >THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE
    >IT LASTS!!!


Comments

  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,993 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Meh. Possibly suited more to Mathematics but it's still kinda lame :dunno:

    All it does is take your original chocolate number and multiply it by 100. This shifts it over to the left hand side, the hundreds, for later on. The constant in the equation starts off as 5, multipled by 50 to give 250. That's why you have 1753 and 1754 because, when added, surprise surprise you get 2003 or 2004. So obviously by subtracting the year of your birth you get your current age. This figure then is added to the original "chocolate figure" and goes into the teens and unary positions to give the "shock" answer.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    nice rant!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Flashling


    Damn you people who explain things! Someone told you santa wasn't real when you were younger didn't they? I was basking in wonderment!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭quank


    Hahah, I'm so stupid. When I multiplied 5 by 50, I used 50:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,302 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    end result was -197
    my original number was 13
    and my age is 22


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭radiospan


    Originally posted by the_syco
    end result was -197
    my original number was 13
    and my age is 22

    Your original number should be less than ten.


  • Registered Users Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Ebonyks


    eh...your original number can be anything you want (1,956,789 chocs a week for eg), as long as it's not a negative obviously.

    Think ya just mucked up the calculations tbh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Drex


    Fu<k me, you people can take the fun out of something....:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,339 ✭✭✭✭LoLth


    Originally posted by Flashling
    Damn you people who explain things! Someone told you santa wasn't real when you were younger didn't they? I was basking in wonderment!


    Santa not real!!! you just destroyed my faith in the world! You @#{$* :p


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