Math Puzzle

DougShrapnel · #1 09-01-2005, 08:48 AM

http://www.etienne.nu/mathpuz/hornet.htm?text=81

#2 09-01-2005, 09:50 AM

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

DougShrapnel · #3 09-01-2005, 09:51 AM

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

#4 09-01-2005, 09:53 AM

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

#5 09-01-2005, 10:48 AM

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

Cooker · #6 09-01-2005, 10:52 AM

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.

baggins · #7 09-01-2005, 10:53 AM

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.

#8 09-01-2005, 10:55 AM

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

Cooker · #9 09-01-2005, 10:57 AM

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

Edit: Corrected a typo

#10 09-01-2005, 11:01 AM

Oh well since you told me that it ended at Stage 8 I decided to solve it...that Stage 8 was ummm more physic than math no?