http://www.logicnest.com/archives/71 The personal weblog of Ian Luke Kane. Thoughts on mathematics, logic, and life. The beauty therein and the strangeness of it all. Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:05:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.logicnest.com/archives/71#comment-6442 Robert Wed, 14 May 2008 04:06:50 +0000 http://www.logicnest.com/?p=71#comment-6442 The puzzle will work next year by simply by changing 1757/1758 to 1758/1759. It works with any single or two-digit number except 0 and 10. The puzzle will work next year by simply by changing 1757/1758 to 1758/1759. It works with any single or two-digit number except 0 and 10.

]]> http://www.logicnest.com/archives/71#comment-6435 thoreaulylazy Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:48:01 +0000 http://www.logicnest.com/?p=71#comment-6435 Your explanation is perfect, but you might also want to mention how subtracting one's own date of birth from a number that varies by 1, depending on whether or not oneself experienced a birthday this year, is the normal way to calculate age. The "wow" factor of any puzzle trying to guess age disappears when it's almost verbatim the standard process of computing age from D.O.B. I tried to formulate a new puzzle with simple directions yet with inner-workings that are, hopefully, truly puzzling: <a href="http://thoreaulylazy.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-birthday.html" rel="nofollow">new puzzle</a>. Your explanation is perfect, but you might also want to mention how subtracting one’s own date of birth from a number that varies by 1, depending on whether or not oneself experienced a birthday this year, is the normal way to calculate age. The “wow” factor of any puzzle trying to guess age disappears when it’s almost verbatim the standard process of computing age from D.O.B. I tried to formulate a new puzzle with simple directions yet with inner-workings that are, hopefully, truly puzzling: new puzzle.

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