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A Mathematical English Sentence
The following is a mathematical expression that is a complete English sentence. Can you tell what the message says?
10 20 04 18 0
10 20 04 18 0
Hint
Think of the different words that sound like the numbers.Answer
One ought to owe nothing, for one ate nothing.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Wahh.. the gaps make it much harder. Nice one! ^_^
Nice that would be a good one for Mad Gab
im so confused
very interesting ! i liked it a lot !!!
so why does it go from using 0 for "ought" to using it for nothing?
meh it was a bit of a stretch for me
meh it was a bit of a stretch for me
I didn't think it was a stretch to switch what "0" meant. I figured it all words that could be used for a number were fair game. The gaps confused me, though. I thought the first one was ten, then twenty. Nice idea, though. Keep 'em coming!
THAT WAS AWESOME.
extremely awesome
i agree dividing the numbers or pairing them up made it a much more difficult teaser. i did not get it, but enjoyed trying.
The sentence was a stretch, the spacing of the numbers invalidates their interpretation to me (you can't put 10 together and expect it to mean 1 0, it means "ten"), and 0 doesn't translate to "owe" as 0 is only pronounced as 'o' when it's at the beginning of a number like '06 (or at the beginning of a segment after a boundary, like "twenty-oh-six" means 2006).
Yeah, you could say I didn't think this teaser was very good, or fair.
Yeah, you could say I didn't think this teaser was very good, or fair.
heard it b4. i tried submitting it but it was your duplicate
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