Chocolate-A new way to do math

Hillbilly

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First go get a calculator

Ok, now........

Give this a try - amazing!

CHOCOLATE MATHEMATICS

This is pretty neat how it works out.
This is cool chocolate math!!!!!!!
DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!

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.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that
you would like to have chocolate. (try for 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 1752....If you haven't, add 1751

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!!!!!)

2002 is the ONLY year that this will work, so spread it
around while it lasts....

At least they say it is...

HB
 

Musicqueen

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HB...

You're a genius!!!

It works...unfortunately, right on the money!

I was kind of hoping it would tell me I'm younger...but...no luck!

My B-day is coming up...next week...April 4...

For presents, everybody...e-mail me and I'll send you my address...!!! (lol)
 

burmell

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Hillbilly. AS an OLD math teacher, I will be glad to tell and show you how and why this works, but I will have to do it in person. At least that would get me back to the DR.

About good schools and teachers in the DR. believe me it is the same here in the USA. It is my opinion that there are at least three reasons for the problem.

1. Administraters feel that if the students in their schools receive good grades, it means that they are getting a good education.

2. Colleges and universities have convinced their staff amd students that if they give their students good grades, it means that they are good teachers.

3. Parents, for the most part, do not take an active role in the education of their children; and also believe that good grades equate to a good education.
 

MommC

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goota agree burmell

At least I find this to be basically true.
We used to take our children travelling with us....ran into some problems with a VP in high school. He threatened to fail my son who had a 94% overall average for not having attended school enough days to pass. Too bad for him he didn't know I sat on a school board committee so I was in effect one of his "bosses". I knew it was all to do with "funding" (the amount the gov't gave to the school for each day a student was in class!). Wish this forum was the place to tell you what I told him......gist of it was if he DARED try it I would "pull rank".Told him I was providing and education the school could not!! He then suggested I "move" my son to a better school. I let him know in no uncertain terms I would not hesitate for a millisecond if there was a better school in our town!!
Parents NEED to be involved!
 

mkohn

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A couple of my Spanish Professors, way back when, had their daughter in a Montessori school in Milwaukee. They apologized when they took her on trips to Mexico, etc. And the school's reply, she would be learning so much more during those 6 weeks! than they could possibly teach her.
I get it about funding, but a 94% average, come on!
 

x_man

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working hard or smart??

Ask the engineer:

(2*CT+5)*50+1752-YB=FINAL#

Where: CT=Chocolate Time
YB=Year Borne
A=Age
FINAL#=100*CT +A

With: YB=2002-A

100*CT +2002-2002 +A=100*CT +A !!

PS I like Hillbilly's puzzle better. X.
 

mondongo

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x_man

You stole my lunch time thunder!!! Nice job. If I may be so intrusive, what type of engineering do you do?
 

mondongo

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x_man

So you are into the hardware end of Bluetooth development? By the way, how is this standard making progress? Are there many consumer products with Bluetooh built in? How is it faring against wireless ethernet and other competing short run wireless standards?

mondongo

PS I wont ask any more personal questions. Feel free to tell me to just put a lid on it.
 

x_man

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Mondongo, Thanks for your interest,but I guess this is not the place
for lengthy tec_talk.

Very briefly:Bluetooth is still in the developmental
stage especially the integrated silicon solution.
The 2.5GHz radio transceiver is the tuffest part.

Give it another year or two and the dishwasher will talk to the
refrigerator and the kitchen range to the washing machine.

I hope I'll be walking the beaches in the DR by than.

Wireless ethernet: Have no idea what's going on there.

Next week I'm getting a DSL line for my house and I am going
to buy an Apple Air Port (wireless connection) for my iBook.
Dont ask me which technology they are using.

There you see engineers know very much about very little.

Regards X.