Tempy

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Friday, May 11, 2007

Calling All Math Geeks

This is funny. But my question to you is... what is the phone number?


In case you can't see it:

x = 24
y = 30

Phone := 01.(y² - x) - (y² - 10²) x 10

FYI- The dash between the first parenthesis is not a subtraction sign; it is the dash of a phone number.

20 Comments:

At 12:34 PM, Blogger Lynne said...

1 800 876 8000? I'm not sure

 
At 12:35 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

Very good, Lynne.

Gold star!

 
At 12:37 PM, Blogger Lynne said...

am I right? did you try calling it?

 
At 12:42 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

Yes. You are right? No I have not called it. Takers?

 
At 12:45 PM, Blogger Lynne said...

I don't make phone calls.

 
At 1:04 PM, Blogger patient boy said...

Yeah but there's no area code, right? It may or may not be an 800 number.

 
At 1:12 PM, Blogger Lynne said...

right. that's what's confusing about the 01. Also, 876 is a version of 800 and 888, so that might be the first three digits (which would make more sense)

 
At 2:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually its a 210 number.

 
At 2:03 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

How do we know that, Anonymous?

 
At 2:06 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's right there in the code.

 
At 2:09 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

Hey guys, check out Little Man Tate.

 
At 2:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102316/

I had to look myself up.

 
At 2:41 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

PS you are wrong. Sorry. Lynne gets the star.

 
At 2:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ah man...next time....

 
At 3:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

enjoy the weekend tempy...and don't take and metal nickels

 
At 3:45 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, I tried to call it. 888 is disconnected. To talk to someone at 800 I had to know my parties extension. Its a slow day here.

 
At 4:05 PM, Blogger Tempy said...

well the proper extension is:
x' = -2y'/sqrt(20-y^2) (x is 45 and 7 is 30)

 
At 4:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Is that famed squirt function? I've never seen anyone use that before. Whoa.

 
At 5:37 PM, Blogger Lynne said...

anonymous is a dick. sqrt would be square root, thank you.

 
At 12:44 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

whoa

 

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