The worlds first riddle!

[size=8]GEYSERS
LCM(94, 720, 35) = 236880 minutes = 3948 hours = 164.5 days[/size]

[size=7]94=2*47
720=2^4*3^2*5
35=5*7
LCM=2^4*3^2*5*7*47=236880
OF=236880/94=2520 eruptions
CaG=329 eruptions
ClG=6768 eruptions
2520=2^3*3^3*5*7
329=7*47
6768=2^4*3^2*47
the set is relatively prime to each other, so 236880 min is minimum.[/size]

329 eruptions of CaG is 164.5 days

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Mark:

GEYSERS
LCM(94, 720, 35) = 236880 minutes = 3948 hours = 164.5 days



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94=2*47
720=2^4*3^2*5
35=5*7
LCM=2^4*3^2*5*7*47=236880
OF=236880/94=2520 eruptions
CaG=329 eruptions
ClG=6768 eruptions
2520=2^3*3^3*5*7
329=7*47
6768=2^4*3^2*47
the set is relatively prime to each other, so 236880 min is minimum.

329 eruptions of CaG is 164.5 days







Factoring each of these three numbers,
94 = 2 x 47,
35 = 5 x 7, and
720 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 5.

Hence, the LCM would equal
2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 47 or 236,880 minutes.
Dividing by 60 yields 3,948 hours, and dividing by 24 confirms the answer of 164.5 days.



I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give out the wrong answers.




The eight-digit number 23421314 has two 1's, two 2's, two 3's, and two 4's. The two 1's are separated by one digit, the two 2's are separated by two digits, the two 3's are separated by three digits, and the two 4's are separated by four digits.

Now imagine a 14-digit number that contains two 1's, two 2's, two 3's, two 4's, two 5's, two 6's, and two 7's, such that the 1's are separated by one digit, the 2's are separated by two digits, and so on, up to the 7's being separated by seven digits. Actually, there are a few such numbers:

Can you find the highest and lowest of them

Or, any two





What is the etymology of the word agnostic


Greek for 'not known', coined by Thomas Huxley

Latin for 'godless', origin unknown

Norwegian for 'disbeliever', coined by Rev. Lars Findley

Danish for 'procrastinator', first cited by Thor Drogsvold

Is that multiple choice cuz I just came up my own answer???

Gnostic, which comes from Greek gnostikos means "pertaining to knowledge", and the prefix a- means "not".

Is that what you were looking for??? Thomas Huxley did coin the word.

14-digit number:

I have one and it's reverse.

73161345726425
52462754316137

[size=8]14-DIGIT NUMBER
There are 52 solutions including reversals.

The smallest is 14156742352637.
The largest is 74151643752362.[/size]

I wrote a program to find all solutions.

[size=8]BUS
The path is ABDGFECA.
The distances are 2, 5, sqrt(20), 2, 2, 3, sqrt(20).

A, B, and D are in a straight line. C, E, F, and G are also in a straight line.[/size]

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Yellow bus (short one, right ) Just joking of course.

Only a guess:
ABDGFECA

I don't have a program to do it. I have to use paper, pencil and my brain. So, that is what came out of my drawing if I understood your question right.
Does effort count?

original meaning of bribe


The alms or the food that one gave to a beggar

The money one gave the tax collector to avoid inspection

The 'bridle bit' pulled to avoid having government officials see the teeth of the horse, and therefore assess the value of the animal

The alms or the food that one gave to a beggar

........final answer.......

[size=7]Mary is Dracula
Fay is the Wolf Man
Elsa is the mummy
Vincent is Frankenstein's Monster
Boris is Mr Hyde
Lon is the creature from the black lagoon
Bela is the invisible man

beggar bribe (n.)
1386, "thing stolen," from O.Fr. "morsel of bread given to beggars," from briber "to beg," a general Romantic word, of uncertain origin. Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is first attested 1535. [/size]

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Shari:

The alms or the food that one gave to a beggar


"........final answer......."

I am sorry you have gotta go, however, if you make parole, do call in.


Rapper:

Mary is Dracula
Fay is the Wolf Man
Elsa is the mummy
Vincent is Frankenstein's Monster
Boris is Mr Hyde
Lon is the creature from the black lagoon
Bela is the invisible man

beggar bribe (n.)
1386, "thing stolen," from O.Fr. "morsel of bread given to beggars," from briber "to beg," a general Romantic word, of uncertain origin. Shift of meaning to "gift given to influence corruptly" is first attested 1535.

Not a lot of people knew that!




Thinking about Shari reminded me of;

The figure below (full rack) depicts the fifteen balls racked up for a game of pool. (Triangle; 5,4,3,2,1)


The balls are numbered from 1 to 15. You (if you accept) must determine the placement of the balls so that the following property is true:

The value of every ball in the bottom four rows is the difference between the values of the two balls immediately above it

Out of the kindness of my heart, balls 1, 2, and 3 have been neatly positioned for you.

03000
.0010
..200
…00
….0



What's the origin of the word typhoon


From the Japanese 'taifu' (Taiwanese wind)

From the Cantonese 'tai fung' (great wind)

From the Greek 'Typhon' (a mythological monster)

I am late but, I did do the monster question. Gosh you were early.

Bela- the Invisible Man
Boris- Mr. Hyde
Elsa- the Mummy
Fay- the Wolf Man
Lon- Creature from the Black Lagoon
Mary- Dracula
Vincent- Frankenstein's Monster

I am only adding them because I read more about monsters than I want to know. Also, Lon & Bela were a toss up so I just guessed on them since I read both the Invisible Man & Creature from the Black Lagoon were of non-European origin ????

Oh and the bribe origin I found back to the mid 1300's. Some I read was to share bread and some said it was of unknown origin.

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From typhoon
the modern word represents a coincidence and convergence of at least two unrelated words of similar sound and sense. Tiphon "violent storm, whirlwind, tornado" is recorded from 1555, from Gk. typhon "whirlwind," personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein "to smoke." The meaning "cyclone, violent hurricane of India or the China Seas" (1588) is first recorded in T. Hickock's translation of an account in Italian of a voyage to the East Indies by Cæsar Frederick, a merchant of Venice, probably borrowed from, or infl. by, Chinese (Cantonese) tai fung "a great wind," from tu "big" + feng "wind;" name given to violent cyclonic storms in the China seas. A third possibility is tufan, a word in Arabic, Persian and Hindi meaning "big cyclonic storm" (and the source of Port. tufao), which may be from Gk. typhon but commonly is said to be a noun of action from Arabic tafa "to turn round."[/size]
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