conundrum!

[anotheranon]

Can someone please tell me why/how this works? Some of you may have already been spammed by this, but I include, in case you haven't:

Subject: age by chocolate...fun one

It takes less than a minute.......
Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don't read the bottom
until you've worked it out! This is
not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.
Go ahead

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to
have chocolate.
(more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (Just to be bold)

3. Add 5. (for Sunday)

4. Multiply it by 50.
I'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 have a three digit number .....

The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times
you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are ..

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2004) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND
WHILE IT LASTS.

Calculated, and by doG, it did work, but WHY?

Comments

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Worked for me too. Somebody went to a lot of trouble to work this out. Coming up with the number of chocolate fixes you originally asked for isn't that difficult, since you're restricted to a one-digit number (which cannot be zero or one, both of which would obviously bollix the formula) which is then run through calculations involving multiples of 2, 5 and 10.

Since this will only work in the year 2004, this number obviously forms the base of this mathematical trick ... you supply your own birth year and whether your birthday has already passed (note that the "not yet" number ends with "3", as in "2003", while the "yes I have" number ends with "4"), which means you're "telling" your age.

Yeah, I know this isn't really an explanation of how it works (I haven't had enough chocolate today for THAT ***grin***), but it's probably enough clues to get us all started on figuring it out.

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Hey! Speak English, wouldja? :-))))

I haven't understood ANY of these replies! Of course, I am completely mathematically challenged.....

Gigi (still scratching head)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Does "It's magic" work for you? ;-)))))

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Hey!!! Now THAT I understood! *G*

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

We'll just call you "Cat" from now on ***grins back***

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

:::blinking:::

I don't get it. If I see that shiny thing it is mine. If I don't understand that number-thingie, it doesn't exist. Simple!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

It's so nice to have at least one friend who can be bribed with a fish. :-)))

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Chicken marengo also works quite well. "I'm gonna eat you little chickie...!"

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Hey, WAITAMINNIT!!!!! You work in a billing dept. and you're mathematically challenged????!!!!!!!! (just what blackmail info did you HAVE on the HR people???!!!)

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Hah! For YOUR information, miss smarty-pants, I use an adding machine. So there. Plppbtth!

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

And it's the FINANCE office, NOT the billing department. Hmmmph. :-)

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Okay, the Finance Dept. It still involves combining numbers, and, even with an adding machine, you've got to have enough mathematical ability to know that if 50+50 comes out as 5000, there's something wrong with the electronic dingus. ;-)

[hadesgirl.livejournal.com]

Heh heh ....well, in THEORY, sure! :-0