Math Puzzle
 

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i got to stage 2, realized i needed a calculator and stopped. call me lazy i guess

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no calc for stage 2 but you'd need one for later.

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Well, that's too much for a Thursday morning that I'm off :P I would need to dig quite far in my brain to solve Stage 7

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But, you were so close to the end. And, stage 8 doesn't require a calculator.

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I did it all. I found the typos and errors quite frustrating. For example, in the square problem, he doesn't define what he means by twice as big, but judging from the answer that works, he meant twice as much area, and not twice as big diagonally across or twice as big a perimeter. This is by no means a standard definition of twice as big in mathematics. Also you have to guess how many significant figures he wants as putting in the wrong number of digits gives incorrect results. This could have been remedied by making all numbers be perfect integers. Poorly designed for a mathematics person if the designer is one.

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i entered the correct answer for stage 2 and then it opened a dead link in a new window. and it kept doing that. so i quit.

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It does that when you enter the incorrect answer...

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Its just a convoluted Pythagorean Theorem question. Now get cracking.

Edit: Corrected a typo

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[ QUOTE ]
I did it all. I found the typos and errors quite frustrating. For example, in the square problem, he doesn't define what he means by twice as big, but judging from the answer that works, he meant twice as much area, and not twice as big diagonally across or twice as big a perimeter. This is by no means a standard definition of twice as big in mathematics. Also you have to guess how many significant figures he wants as putting in the wrong number of digits gives incorrect results. This could have been remedied by making all numbers be perfect integers. Poorly designed for a mathematics person if the designer is one.

[/ QUOTE ]A little poking around shows that the link we were given jumps to the start, while others would have received an instruction that digits after the decimal place were to be ignored.