Just for fun: Chocolate Calculator
This is a TOTAL time-waster that’s TOTALLY worth the waste.
1. Pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate. (More than one; fewer than 10.)
2. Multiply that number by 2.
3. Add 5.
4. Multiply that number by 50. (We don’t mind if you use a calculator)
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759. If you haven’t, add 1758.
6. Subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You have a three digit number, don’t you?
The first digit is your original number, or how many times you want chocolate each week.
The next two numbers are your age.
Dang. Pretty cool, huh?
BTW: Apparently 2009 is the only year this will work. If you know “why,” do tell. We’ve work to do, chocolate to eat and not enough time to figure it out.
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November 5, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Donna,
You had me from the words “Just for fun: Chocolate…” I am a total chocolate addict and love numbers (as long as a calculator is included). Thanks for the mid-afternoon brain candy!
November 19, 2009 at 12:14 am
For people who’ve had their birthday this year:
x = times/week of chocolate (0 < x < 10)
y = year of birth
(50(2x + 5) + 1759) – y
100x + 250 + 1759 – y
100x + 2009 – y
the last part of the equation (2009 – y) is your age, a two digit number. Since x is between 0 and 10, 100x will be a three digit number ending in two zeroes.
February 23, 2010 at 8:41 pm
why does this work? why did anyone take the time to figure this out? is it genius or madness that it works and/or that someone figured out that it works? I’m going insane over it.
I cannot believe how beeeyoootiful the new digs are. And to think I knew you when you were litty bitty. but brilliant. always brilliant. tell miss lib i said big hey.
love.