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I found 5.

Guy, what about burning CD-Rs of computer operating systems for friends? Edit: I'm talking about non-free OSs.

Cool and even on-topic.

Where does the guy in your avatar come from?

File under abnormal ambition... Spoiler attached.

House number = unique? Two of the three boys are of the same age, #3 is older? I'm too lazy to try and find that combination.

Uhm, O.K.

I have the same question.

Your brother-in-law is taunting you with an apples and oranges trick question combined with a clever choice of numbers. 25 must be focussed, not 30: 3 * 9 - 2 = 3 * 10 - (2 + 3) Re choice of numbers: Let's assume the room is only a $16 room and the clerk decides to keep $2. He gives them each back $4. So now each man has paid $6 (* 3 = $18) and the clerk has $2. What happened to the ten dollars?

The "one number is missing" method obviously won't work (2 + 4 = 1 + 5) but I'd still employ it... Missing: 70, 13 5050 - 4967 = 83 -> missing numbers < 83 Finde one missing number: 82, 81, 80, ... 70 83 - 70 = 13 Missing numbers: 70, 13 Can't come up with an elegant algorithm. Do you know one? Well, there is an "elegant" algorithm. (I put elegant in quotes because only mathematicians would think it so. The rest of us would just go through the numbers one by one and do it more quickly.) Calculate 100 factorial. Then calculate the product of all 98 numbers on the list. The quotient is the product of the two missing numbers. Now you have a system of two equations in two variables and you can easily solve for the missing numbers. D'oh. Thanks, Guy.

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Slap it on a spreadsheet and sort it. Look for missing number. Or maybe something like (n*(n+1))/2 - sum of the given numbers (one missing)? Good answer. Now let's say I give you 98 numbers. How do you figure which two are missing? The "one number is missing" method obviously won't work (2 + 4 = 1 + 5) but I'd still employ it... Missing: 70, 13 5050 - 4967 = 83 -> missing numbers < 83 Finde one missing number: 82, 81, 80, ... 70 83 - 70 = 13 Missing numbers: 70, 13 Can't come up with an elegant algorithm. Do you know one?

Slap it on a spreadsheet and sort it. Look for missing number. Or maybe something like (n*(n+1))/2 - sum of the given numbers (one missing)?

Yeah, I've read about those things. Heavy shit. But where's the "herat?" Very close to the heart.

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Chuckology.

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Lidle and the Captain are talking about different types of airplanes, aren't they? Yes, apples glide worse than oranges. Now, we also could ask a Space Shuttle (which is a glider after reentering the atmosphere) pilot and get another rate of descent. 7000 ft -> 15-20 minutes glide in a Cessna Skyhawk doesn't sound unrealistic at all. If there's sufficient thermal lift it might even climb... Fact is: an airplane doesn't stall or fall out of the sky just because the engine goes out.