Cita
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 05:06 PM |
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adding numbers
Can you do this simple calculation without any pen and paper or a pocket calculator?
Do it as fast as you can.
1000 add 40
add another 1000
add 30 and again 1000
add 20
another 1000 and add 10
you have found 5000
YOU DUMBO
The correct outcome is 4100!
No wonder that Locost is never gonna be finished
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chrisg
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 07:34 PM |
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I've done it in my head and on a calculator and it still comes to 5000.
What am I missing?
Cheers
inumerate
[Edited on 17/5/04 by chrisg]
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Cita
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 07:46 PM |
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GIVE THAT CALCULATOR TO YOUR BOSS!!
He will be sooooooo happy making up your next paycheck
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ady8077
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:00 PM |
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"1000 add 40
add another 1000
add 30 and again 1000
add 20
another 1000 and add 10 "
Theres no add between 30 and again 1000, so its two sums
Adrian
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sgraber
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:01 PM |
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Don't worry Chris, you are in good company. I have done it forwards and backwards and also get 5000.
Cita, what gives? Is it a joke?
Graber
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:02 PM |
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Very clever
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:05 PM |
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I got 5000 first time around!
For those who're confused - forget the instructions, just add up the numbers you see...
4 x 1000
and
10 + 20 + 30 + 40
equals 4100!
David
[Edited on 17/5/04 by David Jenkins]
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:07 PM |
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ChrisG
Is that the same Yorkshire calculator you use to add up the Locost Club £10's ?
Dave
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greggors84
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:09 PM |
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What got me is, 10 + 20 + 30 +40 = 100 not 1000
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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flak monkey
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:09 PM |
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Very clever... but i did get 4100...
Its just how its worded...the words are just there to confuse you...
As DJ says...just do the numbers you see and ignore the words...
David 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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chrisg
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 08:23 PM |
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Life is too short.
Cheers
Chris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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Findlay234
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 08:05 AM |
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if the sum had been left a sum then you would have all got it right, but the supposed answer was below and even if you hadn’t consciously seen it you
eyes will have, moving you toward thinking it was 5000
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Peteff
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 09:44 AM |
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If you added the 1000's and then the tens it's 4100 first time. I think it's autosuggestion if you get it wrong.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Cita
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 04:06 PM |
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Sorry for my poor English guys but it has nothing to do with the total being exposed.
The trick is that most of us (including me!)
going from 3090 + 10 = 4000 instead of 3100 as we all (?) know is the correct sum
It has something to do with our brain being ordered to "think" what is most likely instead of what actualy is.
Try write something simple as your own name while standing up and figure small circles with your right foot.There are only two possibility's,you
stop making circles and go to a liniar movement or...
IT'S BLOODY IMPOSSIBLE TO READ YOUR OWN HANDWRITING
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