This will blow your mind....

**Her_C4** · 30th October 2007, 16:32

**THIS ONE WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!***

Can you figure out how this works?

*1) Go to the link below. After following the instructions in each window, click on the boy in the lower right corner of the picture.*

*2) In the last window just type in your answer in the white box using the Keyboard (there is NO cursor).*

*3) Watch the paper in the boy's hand. You will be amazed. And no, I don't know how it's done.*

Click here: Fido Puzzle

**EJK** · 30th October 2007, 16:37

Quite cool lol

**HTFU** · 30th October 2007, 16:47

pretty cool. I did it a few times put in 1434 jumbled it to 3441 = 1007 , circled 1 and it didn't get it said I picked 2. Might have been the zeros.

**Headbanger** · 30th October 2007, 16:50

weird.

I picked 666, and it got it right.

I no like.

This stinks of the Devil.

**Maha** · 30th October 2007, 16:52

Yeah he was right....

**Mrs Cowboyz** · 30th October 2007, 16:54

very cool...now I will have to try and figure out how it did it....I'm like that!!

**tide** · 30th October 2007, 16:55

Originally Posted by Robignevil

pretty cool. I did it a few times put in 1434 jumbled it to 3441 = 1007 , circled 1 and it didn't get it said I picked 2. Might have been the zeros.

your maths sucks 1434 jumbled it to 3441 = 2007 not 1007

**Meekey_Mouse** · 30th October 2007, 17:05

Lol, it didn't get it right.

I started with 0737 jumbled to 3770 subdivided to 3047 then circled 7. He came up with 2

**Nasty** · 30th October 2007, 17:10

Yup he got it wrong ... I circled 4 and he said 3!

**Colapop** · 30th October 2007, 17:14

No fair!! My mind didn't get blown... or any other part of me...

**caesius** · 30th October 2007, 17:29

Simple math. It's a variant on the old primary school trick but on a larger scale. I'm doing the paperwork now...

**jrandom** · 30th October 2007, 17:32

Mmm, fun with numbers.

Each potential four-digit number with at least two different digits in it (numbers with all the same digits, subtracted from themselves, will always be zero) has a particular set of other digits that it can be changed into via the "scramble and subtract" method on that page.

Each set of output digits is unique inasmuch as three particular digits will always correspond to a given fourth.

All you have to do is tediously work out the 220-entry list of each possible three-digit combination and its associated fourth output digit, and you're away laughing. Fortunately, that sort of thing is what computers are good at.

Until the middle of the twentieth century, number theory was, unlike the likes of algebra and calculus, considered 'pure math', not of any real use.

Then, after Galois fields and combinatorial analysis won (depending on who you ask) World War II, people started taking notice.

Now you couldn't do your internet banking without it.

**Sanx** · 30th October 2007, 17:33

Got mine wrong too...

**jrandom** · 30th October 2007, 17:34

Originally Posted by Meekey_Mouse

I started with 0737 jumbled to 3770 subdivided to 3047 then circled 7. He came up with 2

Did you misread the instructions? You're supposed to subtract the scrambled number from your original number. In your case, 737 - 3770 = -3033. Or the other way round, doesn't matter, will just reverse the sign of the result.

Nonsense input will generate nonsense output.