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Two Numbers 2
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One day, Bob came up to Paul and said, "I bet if you say two numbers and I multiply them together, I can say the answer in less than five seconds."
"Okay," replied Paul, "23,904,888,112 times 209,674,999,109."
Bob won the bet fairly. How did he do it?
(There are two alternate answers)
"Okay," replied Paul, "23,904,888,112 times 209,674,999,109."
Bob won the bet fairly. How did he do it?
(There are two alternate answers)
Answer
Answer one - Bob worked out the equation (this took him much longer than 5 seconds), then recited the answer to Paul (this took him less than 5 seconds).Bob said he could say the answer in less than 5 seconds. FINDING the answer was not included in the time limit.
Answer two - Bob simply said, "The answer."
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I went with answer 2...I like the first answer better though. Good teaser!
5,012,257,393,584,344,692,208
Takes me longer than 5 sec. to say that...
Takes me longer than 5 sec. to say that...
This was more like lateral thinking - very good!
I got answer 2, but Answer one was funny. You should have said in the teaser you can't do answer two. Full stars!
Anybody that can say "5 sextillion 12 quintillion 2 hundred 57 quadrillion 3 hundred 93 trillion 5 hundred 84 billion 3 hundred 44 million 6 hundred 92 thousand 2 hundred and 8" in less then 5 seconds is impressive by my count
He could have said one. Nothing about the correct answer.
I got answer two also.
starriddler that was already used in a brain teaser.
wow corneon o.o that was erm great XD ha ha ha nice math but ;)
5 sextillion 12 quintillion 2 hundred 57 quadrillion 3 hundred 93 trillion 5 hundred 84 billion 3 hundred 44 million 6 hundred 92 thousand 2 hundred and 8!
Dang, 6.783 seconds.
Dang, 6.783 seconds.
Awesome. Answer 2 is obvious, but answer 1 is a lot funner (that word is real in my dictionary)
I thought he just said the wrong answer, pfft.
number twos easy but i got it wrong
Yes, he could have just recited the wrong answer so there are three answers to this. I don't like when there are multiple answers
I got #2. Liked answer #1, it was cute.
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