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i can read minds…i have espn…i’m a claire huxtable

August 7th, 2005 · 2 Comments

Grab a piece of paper, unless you have a wicked memory. Write down a three or four digit number. It could be anything like 5823, 3772 or 946.

With the number that you wrote down, scramble up the order of the digits to create a second number. So if you wrote down 5823, something like 3852 would do the job.

At this point, you should have two numbers written down. Subtract the smaller number from the larger number. So if your first number was 5823 and your second scrambled number was 3852, then you’d perform 5823 - 3852 to get your third number (in this case, it’s 1971).

Now circle one of the digits of your answer from the subtraction, but don’t draw a circle around a 0, since it’s already a circle.

Now I’m going to try to determine which number you circled. Mix up all of your numbers in your answer and type them in below EXCEPT for the one that you circled. Then click the “Enter” button.


Your web browser is completely ignoring the <APPLET> tag! You need Java to see this properly.

If you’re interested in finding out how I can do such a feat, you may or may not be able to find an answer in my source code ;)

Note: Yes, the above requires Java so if you’re viewing this in an RSS or Atom reader, you won’t see it; come visit my site instead. I’ve finally succumbed to all of the attention that the Eclipse IDE was getting, so I needed a reason to try it out. That, and I haven’t written any Java code in a long time.

Tags: Computers · Programming

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 barry // Aug 10, 2005 at 3:59 pm

    i havent had a chance to try this till now… very wicked.

  • 2 Chris // Aug 10, 2005 at 7:47 pm

    Thanks, man. It’s one of those fun math games that’s great at casual social gatherings ;)

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