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 Post subject: Lenny Conundrum #112
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:07 pm 
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The key to this one is a year equaling 365.2425 days. I think o_O

ANSWER: 294,215,686,440,197,141,401 years
Although there is much fuss from people who claimed to have submitted just that and not winning.


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That's the answer I came up with, but I didn't win this round. I didn't put comma's in my answer, nor did I put the word "years" in it. I don't see why comma's would be required, especially since TNT didn't specify it. And "years" was already implied in the question.... o_O


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A few things on this LC.

One. I made a C program that calculated all the permutations one could have. This was the brute force method ... just taking N! / [ m! * (N-m)!] for m from 0 to 88....and summing them up (N is total spaces ... m is number of one color of piece ... N-m is the number of the other color of piece) Worked great when N was small.

I got rounding error as a result, and my answer was wrong, though ... when N got large. I was sad. :(

The clever way to think about it (and I can't take credit for this logic ... but it makes complete sense), is just taking 2^88 as the number of possible ways to set up the board. (which is what my formula will come up with without rounding errors on the computer) :)

The big problem will be how neopets defined a year. (In order to calculate the time from these number of possible board set ups)

365. 365.25? 365.2422? 52*7 = 364?

If they really wanted an answer to the nearest year ... you would have to know the number of days in a year to about 20 significant digits. If you found that conversion to 20 signifcant digits ... I'm proud of you.

(for 365 days in a year ... the answer would be
294411158505845765530)
(for 365.25 days in a year ... the answer would be
294209645050331839612)

(Notice how just that small change in days per year makes the 4th digit of the number change) :)


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 Post subject: Re: Lenny Conundrum #112
PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:18 pm 
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The key to this one is a year equaling 365.2425 days. I think o_O

ANSWER: 294,215,686,440,197,141,401 years
Although there is much fuss from people who claimed to have submitted just that and not winning.


NO CRAP.

I submitted that exact one, and I know because I have it as a text file. :x I didn't win.


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The best number I have been able to find is:

365.2421896698 days in 1 year.

Astronomers all disagree as to an exact definition, anyway, it seems. It all depends on how you actually define the year.

With this "best" answer I can find ... I get as an answer ...

294215936422305995441


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Did this week's puzzle close BEFORE it opened? :o

2 + 2 = 4
4 + 4 = 8
142 + 468 = 621
3762 + 8271 = ?

Looks like this round has already been judged!


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I think they were lazy again, and they didn't have time to do an actual one. Even though they said they were going to make this weeks super hard.


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I think they were lazy again, and they didn't have time to do an actual one. Even though they said they were going to make this weeks super hard.


Well, it *is* super-hard.

Seeing as:

142 + 468 = 610

Not 621

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Maybe when they released it, they were flooded with a million entries just adding the last two together?


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Maybe when they released it, they were flooded with a million entries just adding the last two together?


-prays for that-


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The current (112) was easy... anyway as I posted before I used 365.25 as the calculation... and not the 365.2425 :x


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o_0 wrote:
watericesage wrote:
Maybe when they released it, they were flooded with a million entries just adding the last two together?


-prays for that-


Heh heh, It'll be funny when TNT announce that NO ONE won the LC because of Newbies with access to a calculator that have no idea what kind of questions they ask in the LC.


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lenny conundrum wrote:
Round: 112

2 + 2 = 4
4 + 4 = 8
142 + 468 = 621
3762 + 8271 = ?

Answer: 294,215,686,440,197,141,401 years

Uh? the answer is that of last round? o_O

Anyhow, did anyone actually got to send an answer when it started? I didn't get to see a submit space.


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o_0 wrote:
Knives wrote:
I think they were lazy again, and they didn't have time to do an actual one. Even though they said they were going to make this weeks super hard.


Well, it *is* super-hard.

Seeing as:

142 + 468 = 610

Not 621

O.O


EDIT: never mind. 142 + 468 does equal 621. :)


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