Chocolate math: how old are you?

[Mathman]

1. Pick the number of days per week that you would like to have chocolate.

2. Multiply this number by 2.

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 1755....

If you haven't, add 1754 ......

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number.
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The first digit of this three digit number is your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are .....
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> Your age!
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This is the only year (2005) it will ever work, so spread it around while it lasts.

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[Tonichelle]

I got a 2 digit number because my first number was zero LOL

so I am 20 years old (imagine that!)

 

[Ptichka]

Let x be the answer to 1

1. x
2. 2x
3. 2x + 5
4. (2x + 5) * 50 = 100x + 250
5. 100x + 250 + 1755 = 100 x + 2005

This ( 2005 + 100 x ) is the number from which you subtract your year of birth.
So, it is 2005 + 100x - year_of_birth
Obviosly, (2005 - year_of_birth) is your age.
So 2005 + 100x - year_of_birth = (2005 - year_of_birth) + 100x = age + 100x
Assuming your age is under 100, the number you'll get is Xab where ab is age.

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Now doing that was much more fun than getting the house ready for the wedding!

 

[Piel]

Larry something is not working right here. It keeps coming up 50 instead of 29 :scratch:

 

[Suzy]

It worked!!! How did that happen?

 

[show 42]

It didn't work for me, and I did it twice........of course, no one ever accused me of being a whiz at math............ 42


Oh........I redid it.........I subtracted instead of adding my birth year......yep! It worked.......42

 

[MannyisHOT]

First time I did it I got 513..... I chose 5 and I am 13.... just to make sure it wasn't a trick I used 7 and i got 713! It is very cool!

 

[LegalGirl82]

It worked! Now off to eat some chocolate...

 

[Ptichka]

It worked!!! How did that happen?

Read my post (above) to see how it happened!

 

[RealtorGal]

Larry something is not working right here. It keeps coming up 50 instead of 29 :scratch:

Surprisingly, the same thing keeps happening to me! It should say 29, not 43!

 

[rtureck]

OK, I will play

1. Pick the number of days per week that you would like to have chocolate.

2. Multiply this number by 2.

3. Add 5 (for Sunday).

4. Multiply it by 50. (I'll wait while you get the calculator...)

Since my answer to 1 is zero, so net result of step 1 - 4 is a huge fat zero

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1755....

If you haven't, add 1754 ......

OK 1754

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

OK, in to negative territory

You should have a three digit number.
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The first digit of this three digit number is your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are .....
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> Your age!

I actually have more fun with the numbers 1754, and 1755 in another way.
1. The Orangery Schoenbruch palace was built in 1754 - 1755. The Hasburger emperor organized a lot of music programs/ activities there, including WAM, and Salieri. In addition: violinist and composer
Giuseppe Tartini in 1754 announced his discovery of
“the third sound.” This is a subjective sensation now
known as “difference tone” that is believed to occur
because of the presence of nonlinear resonance in the
ear. When two pitches are sounded, a third lower one
seems to resound. Tartini found it by listening carefully
to double-stops played on a violin

2. 1755 is the year that marked the beginning of greatness for F. J. Haydn, he started composing 18 divertimenti and his very first symphony at the age of 24.


So that leads to a even more important number

3. 1756, at the age of 24 Haydn composed his first symphony.
Leopald Mozart wrote his book on art and technique violin performance in 1756. But most important of all, why is 1756 so important? ......

this is the only year 2005 that works

Year 2005 is important, hmmmm.. but 2006 is the 250th birthday of ??????

 

[Ptichka]

Since my answer to 1 is zero, so net result of step 1 - 4 is a huge fat zero

No, since in step 3 you are supposed to add 5
[(0 * 2 ) + 5] * 50 = 250

 

[rtureck]

No, since in step 3 you are supposed to add 5
[(0 * 2 ) + 5] * 50 = 250

OK, but this formula only works with a step 1 of non zero number, if step 1 is zero, then you have to take the last 2 digits in the final step as your age, and I still have more fun with 1754, 1755, 1756, and 2006 my way

 

[Mathman]

OK, let's try it for Big Mo.

1. x=7 (Mozart loved his chocolate!)
2. 2 times 7 = 14
3. Plus 5 = 19
4. Times 50 = (wait -- let me get my calculator)...950
5. Mozart has already had his birthday this year (January 27), so add 1755...2705.
6. Subtract 1756 (the year of Mozart's birth)...949.

Mozart is 49 years old and eats chocolate 9 days per week.

Moral: "Life is like a box of chocolates -- every piece adds 100 years to your life!" -- Forrest Gump.

 

[Ptichka]

OK, but this formula only works with a step 1 of non zero number, if step 1 is zero, then you have to take the last 2 digits in the final step as your age, and I still have more fun with 1754, 1755, 1756, and 2006 my way

Depends how you look at it. 56 can also be written as 056. However, it will NOT work if you are over 99 years old.

 

[dlkksk8fan]

45 is the right number