Trick question?

[tooner 243]

aren't words and numbers just placeholders for two different types of abstract processes? different facets of the same stone.

[Renton 21626]

aren't words and numbers just placeholders for two different types of abstract processes? different facets of the same stone.

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[Dr Gloom 21924]

Without numbers, there would be no science and no technology. No engineering. No economy etc. We could communicate with sign language without words.

All of the boring stuff, words are just sexier than numbers, admit it.

[Jill 0]

I read the question about 20 times thinking of course it couldn't be that straightforward.

 

Of course it was. And I thought my mental arithmetic was turd.

[Meenzer 15529]

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[Monkeys Fist 42449]

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Fixed.

[Dr Gloom 21924]

I read the question about 20 times thinking of course it couldn't be that straightforward.

 

Of course it was. And I thought my mental arithmetic was turd.

Nope, that's me. And HMHM, apparently

[Rayvin 5223]

I'm not so sure it's an arithmetic thing though. It's about how the question is worded and the setting of certain expectations in your head based on the numbers used.

 

For instance, if you'd been asked what 10p plus 1.10p is, you wouldn't have said 1.10p.

 

If SEW hadn't said it was a trick question and had asked it in a none 'test' setting, I reckon a higher number of people would have been caught out.

[Happy Face 29]

Not a trick. But for those complaining the op was too easy..

 

Here are four different coded messages. Each has a different encryption scheme and they progress, I think, from easiest to toughest to crack. What are the messages?

 

1. A zsnw kmuuwkkxmddq kgdnwv lzw XanwLzajlqWayzl Javvdwj!

 

2. xckik acvlbeg oz mmqn xnlautw. gzag, mwcht, kbjzh ulw cpeq edr mom dhqx lksxlioil?

 

3. hy vg nw rh ev pr is or tf?

 

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😎😊, 😓😇😀😓😒 😈😓. 😍😎😖 😆😄😓 😁😀😂😊 😓😎 😖😎😑😊. 😇😄😘, 😀😓 😋😄😀😒😓 😈😓😒 😅😑😈😃😀😘.

[Renton 21626]

Just fuck off!

[Happy Face 29]

That doesn't even fit the letter counts