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What number, when 10 is subtracted from it, ends up, absolutely, as the same number that we started with?
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5Explanation:
5 - 10 = -5
The absolute value of -5 (written as |-5|) is 5, the same number that we started with. So, "absolutely" it's the same.
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Cute "trick"
However, I could not find - in any of the hard-bound dictionaries I own - or on a net search, any use of the adverbial form of "absolute" as you here refer to it.
Please send me a citation.
Thanks.
Jaye
However, I could not find - in any of the hard-bound dictionaries I own - or on a net search, any use of the adverbial form of "absolute" as you here refer to it.
Please send me a citation.
Thanks.
Jaye
Good trick! A bit of mathability needed - so it will make a good little starter for my classes one morning. Thanks!
*LGM* I don't think a citation is called for. "Absolutely" is written as a pun. As a play on words, it need not follow strict grammatical rules (IMHO!)
*LGM* I don't think a citation is called for. "Absolutely" is written as a pun. As a play on words, it need not follow strict grammatical rules (IMHO!)
It's a theoretical usage of the word that the reader can deduce and/or understand by virtue of its context and through the use of the reader's imagination.
WOW .... !!!
TWO "defenders of the faith". I'm indeed duly impressed.
Actually I took the "challenge" pathway on this one hoping it would generate SOME discussion on allowable - editor-wise - usage.
And it has. Maybe we can continue this (and get some other Brainglers involved).
We (the BunnyBunch) have been told, many times editorially, that:
01. Puns are not allowed. They are eschewed as policy by Braingle and "should be sent to Braingle's 'Sister Site' " (wherever and whatever THAT is).
02. We (as teaser submitters) should be very careful to avoid too much intuitive leaping. I believe the editors' fav phrase is ... (something like) ...
"body does not lead to conclusion".
TFF : Your "theoretical usage" assertion might (maybe) fit our own construct of the intuitive leap. I can assure you there is not much fundamentally awry with my own "reading in context" or my personal capacity for imaginative thinking. I solved the teaser rather quickly.
Actually I thought it was a righteous teaser and gave it a max rating.
So does this mean some of us have some sort of "in" with the editors in allowing the ....
"theoretical pun"
Or ... as some other wag commented ...
"Do 'theoretical physicists' REALLY exist?"
LGM (for the BunnyBunch; BadBunnee (deceased), BadBunnee02, & myself).
TWO "defenders of the faith". I'm indeed duly impressed.
Actually I took the "challenge" pathway on this one hoping it would generate SOME discussion on allowable - editor-wise - usage.
And it has. Maybe we can continue this (and get some other Brainglers involved).
We (the BunnyBunch) have been told, many times editorially, that:
01. Puns are not allowed. They are eschewed as policy by Braingle and "should be sent to Braingle's 'Sister Site' " (wherever and whatever THAT is).
02. We (as teaser submitters) should be very careful to avoid too much intuitive leaping. I believe the editors' fav phrase is ... (something like) ...
"body does not lead to conclusion".
TFF : Your "theoretical usage" assertion might (maybe) fit our own construct of the intuitive leap. I can assure you there is not much fundamentally awry with my own "reading in context" or my personal capacity for imaginative thinking. I solved the teaser rather quickly.
Actually I thought it was a righteous teaser and gave it a max rating.
So does this mean some of us have some sort of "in" with the editors in allowing the ....
"theoretical pun"
Or ... as some other wag commented ...
"Do 'theoretical physicists' REALLY exist?"
LGM (for the BunnyBunch; BadBunnee (deceased), BadBunnee02, & myself).
I'd call it aschematiston. But still a simple and enjoyable teaser. Liked it.
Cute math-trick teaser. Made me smile.
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