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Can you figure out the telephone number? (Original Post) Playinghardball Apr 2013 OP
867-5309 JaneyVee Apr 2013 #1
Wrong answer.. I think Playinghardball Apr 2013 #2
Did he move into Jenny's old house? Fla_Democrat Apr 2013 #6
"Jenny...I got it, I got it... GReedDiamond Apr 2013 #11
Owww Owww oww .. Math gives me a headache notadmblnd Apr 2013 #3
Wait a minute! femmocrat Apr 2013 #4
No indeed. RudynJack Apr 2013 #5
Hell, no. Do I win? nt Honeycombe8 Apr 2013 #7
87051515887 SidDithers Apr 2013 #8
Let's call it and see if you're correct...LOL Playinghardball Apr 2013 #14
87051515887 Blind Man Bert Aug 2013 #21
BR-549 lpbk2713 Apr 2013 #9
0. nt pintobean Apr 2013 #10
lol. the problem with this is two fold. One it's trivially easy in some sence... Locut0s Apr 2013 #12
It's gotta be degrees... SidDithers Apr 2013 #13
No I meant most would express it in radians as in... Locut0s Apr 2013 #16
Ah. Gotcha... SidDithers Apr 2013 #17
If that's his number, I can only imagine hers. nt babylonsister Apr 2013 #15
(901) 634-5789 Tikki Apr 2013 #18
They have software that will do that for you now. nt Comrade_McKenzie Apr 2013 #19
"i was told there would be no math" (nm) smackd Apr 2013 #20
exactly my thoughts BainsBane Aug 2013 #22
 

Playinghardball

(11,665 posts)
2. Wrong answer.. I think
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:19 PM
Apr 2013

After further calculations you might be right...I can up with two different answers...

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
4. Wait a minute!
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:28 PM
Apr 2013

Being able to solve that problem has nothing to do with intelligence. It only proves that the "girl" has studied trig or whatever that gobbledy-gook is. He's not worth the effort.

RudynJack

(1,044 posts)
5. No indeed.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 07:30 PM
Apr 2013

Any guy who would post such a thing is probably not an ideal mate. I'm imagining Sheldon from Big Bang Theory.

21. 87051515887
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 10:37 AM
Aug 2013

Yep. I agree (worked it out using Maxima CAS package).

Overseas, but where? It's definitely outside the USA (the use of 0,5 to represent 1/2, and eleven digit phone numbers would suggest that).

I would suspect this is a marketing ploy to get folks to call that number.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
12. lol. the problem with this is two fold. One it's trivially easy in some sence...
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 09:03 PM
Apr 2013

It would take some time but any decent symbolic math program or good calculator can solve that just by plugging in the numbers. And two no self respecting math or psychics buff uses degrees in their calculations. Sin and cos is always done in radians.

Just my 2 cents.

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
13. It's gotta be degrees...
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 09:10 PM
Apr 2013

cos(60) and sin(30) both go to 1/2 when using degrees, but give some godawful number in rads.

It's straight forward except for this part:



I read that to read as the square root of the half-root of 16, which is 16, times sin(30) times cos(60) = 4

Final number I got was 87051515887, which isn't much of a phone number.



Sid

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
16. No I meant most would express it in radians as in...
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 09:25 PM
Apr 2013

30 degrees is ?/6 radians.
And 60 is ?/3 and that's usually how you would write it.

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