My head'd pop like Scanners if I tried to get the bottom of a complicated maths question.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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That I'm able to set up grading spreadsheets for her is about all that's keeping her from changing the locks.Kory wrote:Well don't tell her that—the power dynamics of your relationship will change.Dr. Medulla wrote:My wife is a mathphobe, plain and simple. She sees numbers and panics. She's proof to me that IQ tests, which rely heavily on math, are bullshit, because she ain't dumb.Kory wrote:I never got higher than a C in math at school, though I'm shocked it wasn't much lower. I think it's my frustration with the learning process there that feeds my current distaste for numbers. I just read Marky's rundown and my eyes quite literally glazed over.Dr. Medulla wrote:You and the missuz are of the same tribe.Kory wrote:I've trained my brain to pretty much shut down when anything more complicated than calculating a tip is involved. The same just happenensfinvaorpnvej apeiaueraehbrv
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I have to have complete silence for concentration or my head seriously hurts. It feels like I'm battling with myself and I don't like the feeling much.Silent Majority wrote:My head'd pop like Scanners if I tried to get the bottom of a complicated maths question.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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Just had an image of you having a punch up with yourself in a diner, Superman III style.Marky Dread wrote:I have to have complete silence for concentration or my head seriously hurts. It feels like I'm battling with myself and I don't like the feeling much.Silent Majority wrote:My head'd pop like Scanners if I tried to get the bottom of a complicated maths question.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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Haha. If I had a fight with myself I know I would lose. I'm very scared of hurting myself.Silent Majority wrote:Just had an image of you having a punch up with yourself in a diner, Superman III style.Marky Dread wrote:I have to have complete silence for concentration or my head seriously hurts. It feels like I'm battling with myself and I don't like the feeling much.Silent Majority wrote:My head'd pop like Scanners if I tried to get the bottom of a complicated maths question.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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Funny, the first one seems obvious to me now, but I'm still not entirely sure how you worked out the fish one.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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Trial and error?Dr. Medulla wrote:Funny, the first one seems obvious to me now, but I'm still not entirely sure how you worked out the fish one.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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I got hung up on trying to figure out how the tail's length includes half the body, but the body's length includes knowing the tail's length. It can undoubtedly be broken down into a really simple equation, but I'm way too far removed from algebra class to work it out.Kory wrote:Trial and error?Dr. Medulla wrote:Funny, the first one seems obvious to me now, but I'm still not entirely sure how you worked out the fish one.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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I hate math.Dr. Medulla wrote:My wife is a mathphobe, plain and simple. She sees numbers and panics. She's proof to me that IQ tests, which rely heavily on math, are bullshit, because she ain't dumb.Kory wrote:I never got higher than a C in math at school, though I'm shocked it wasn't much lower. I think it's my frustration with the learning process there that feeds my current distaste for numbers. I just read Marky's rundown and my eyes quite literally glazed over.Dr. Medulla wrote:You and the missuz are of the same tribe.Kory wrote:I've trained my brain to pretty much shut down when anything more complicated than calculating a tip is involved. The same just happenensfinvaorpnvej apeiaueraehbrv
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And it hates all of us!Mimi wrote:I hate math.Dr. Medulla wrote:My wife is a mathphobe, plain and simple. She sees numbers and panics. She's proof to me that IQ tests, which rely heavily on math, are bullshit, because she ain't dumb.Kory wrote:I never got higher than a C in math at school, though I'm shocked it wasn't much lower. I think it's my frustration with the learning process there that feeds my current distaste for numbers. I just read Marky's rundown and my eyes quite literally glazed over.Dr. Medulla wrote:You and the missuz are of the same tribe.Kory wrote:I've trained my brain to pretty much shut down when anything more complicated than calculating a tip is involved. The same just happenensfinvaorpnvej apeiaueraehbrv
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Yes and luck.Kory wrote:Trial and error?Dr. Medulla wrote:Funny, the first one seems obvious to me now, but I'm still not entirely sure how you worked out the fish one.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
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Body = 9 + 9 + ½ BodyDr. Medulla wrote:I got hung up on trying to figure out how the tail's length includes half the body, but the body's length includes knowing the tail's length. It can undoubtedly be broken down into a really simple equation, but I'm way too far removed from algebra class to work it out.Kory wrote:Trial and error?Dr. Medulla wrote:Funny, the first one seems obvious to me now, but I'm still not entirely sure how you worked out the fish one.Marky Dread wrote:Ha! hardly my head is really hurting now. The fish one was easier.Silent Majority wrote:Marky's a genius, but we all knew that.
Body = 18 + ½ Body
½ Body = 18
18 x 2
Body = 36 inches
The rest falls into place.
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I know I won't be able to properly express myself here, but that doesn't quite make sense to me. It feels like there should be something infinite about the calculation, where you take half the body and add it to the body, but that means having to recalculate by that new length and so on. It just goes over and over, growing by a smaller and smaller amount each time, but infinitely so. Kind of like one of Zeno's Paradoxes. Of course I'm wrong in my thinking here, but that is where I'm hung up.Marky Dread wrote:Body = 9 + 9 + ½ BodyDr. Medulla wrote:I got hung up on trying to figure out how the tail's length includes half the body, but the body's length includes knowing the tail's length. It can undoubtedly be broken down into a really simple equation, but I'm way too far removed from algebra class to work it out.
Body = 18 + ½ Body
½ Body = 18
18 x 2
Body = 36 inches
The rest falls into place.
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You do take half the body and add it to the body. But I'm sure to be looking at the calculation in it's simplest form anything more complex and I'm out of here. That Zeno's Paradox is impossibly fascinating.Dr. Medulla wrote:I know I won't be able to properly express myself here, but that doesn't quite make sense to me. It feels like there should be something infinite about the calculation, where you take half the body and add it to the body, but that means having to recalculate by that new length and so on. It just goes over and over, growing by a smaller and smaller amount each time, but infinitely so. Kind of like one of Zeno's Paradoxes. Of course I'm wrong in my thinking here, but that is where I'm hung up.Marky Dread wrote:Body = 9 + 9 + ½ BodyDr. Medulla wrote:I got hung up on trying to figure out how the tail's length includes half the body, but the body's length includes knowing the tail's length. It can undoubtedly be broken down into a really simple equation, but I'm way too far removed from algebra class to work it out.
Body = 18 + ½ Body
½ Body = 18
18 x 2
Body = 36 inches
The rest falls into place.
I think the fish is a red herring.
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And your interpretation is almost certainly correct, if for no other reason than one of the answers being "it's a paradox of infinity."Marky Dread wrote:You do take half the body and add it to the body. But I'm sure to be looking at the calculation in it's simplest form anything more complex and I'm out of here.
You're awful.I think the fish is a red herring.
edit: Googled and found this breakdown, confirming your solution:
H = head length H = 9
T = tail length T = H + (1/2)B
B = body length B = H + T
Starting with B, substitute the values for H & T
B = 9 + 9 + (1/2)B
B = 18 + (1/2)B
(1/2)B = 18
2/1 x (1/2)B = 18 x 2/1
Body = 36 inches
Tail = H + (1/2)B
T = 9 + (1/2)36
T = 9 + 18
T = 27 inches
The total length = H + B + T
= 9 + 36 + 27
= 72 inches
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