The worlds first riddle!

... tung baby

Hoe gaat het met je Lood.
Lood is een scheikundig element met symbool Pb en atoomnummer 82. Het is een donkergrijs hoofdgroepmetaal.

Ich weiß, aber nicht Deutsch…
I’m not Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, and it was not Frenchman René Fonck who shot him down. From schooldays we were taught it was Snoopy.

C-Jane is one of my dearest West coast deities, although I suspect she emanates from a Prussian aristocratic family.
I hope that sets the record straight and avoids improbity.

I have the honor to present the first aperitif for your palette:

Believe me when I say a radioactive A2K pizza has a half-life of 2 hours.
How long will it take for 7/8 of the atoms to have decayed?

If you have problems with your newklear reactor please give me a call – miniscule discount for A2K Members!

6 hours

after 2 hours, 1/2 remains
after 4 hours, 1/4 remains
after 6 hours, 1/8 remains

No, I am afraid my lineage does not cross the Red Baron or any Prussian for that matter. Ruled by Henry the Lion and later the Wittelsbach was our fate...

As for the riddle - decay is such an ugly word, but trusting mark's excellent math skills, I assume he's right.

yeah dank and bitter load off my plumbum

"eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van loden" - "First person singular present tense of lead"

with aperitif into a preprandial and jentacular

which if i had half a life after 6 hours i would know was spelt MINUSCULE

Dear adversaries, I would like to congratulate y’all as I have nothing but admiration for your perspicacity and talent for finding the mot juste.

As for LOL berating me for a topographical lexicon malfunction due entirely to the juxtaposition of the ‘u’ and ‘i’ keys; please except my floccinaucinihilipilification apologies.

To make amends for my manual dexterity Freudian slip may I present for your edification:



The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. Out of contrition I have provided a partially completed grid, which typically has a unique solution.

Completed puzzles are always a type of Latin square with an additional constraint on the contents of individual regions. For example, the same single integer may not appear twice in the same 9×9 playing grid row or column or in any of the nine 3×3 sub regions of the 9×9 playing grid.

May the force be with you.

you've reinvented sudoku?

I is U when we are minuscule.

Eye sea ewe Lol.

Spelling is the writing of one or more words with letters and diacritics. In addition, the term often, but not always, means an accepted standard spelling or the process of naming the letters. In the sense of a standard, spelling is one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of alphabetic languages. Spelling attempts to transcribe the sounds of the language into alphabetic letters.

Whether or not a word is misspelled may depend on context, as is the case with American / British English distinctions. Misspelling can also be a matter of opinion when variant spellings are accepted by some and not by others. For example "miniscule" (for "minuscule") is a misspelling to many and yet it is listed as an acceptable variant in some dictionaries.

a)^ "miniscule" The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
b)^ "miniscule" Cambridge Dictionary of American English.

The intelligence of Dan Quayle, for instance, was repeatedly disparaged for his correcting a student's spelling of "potato" as the now non-standard "potatoe" at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey.

However, I subscribe to the view of President Andrew Jackson who stated;
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."




Rocky, I ain’t saying Sudoku copied dobedo – just sayin’.

I think Frank Sinatra made his name with that.

Triagain wrote :


"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."

Hi Tri, long time no write or rote, it's me (paulaj jove). I alway's miss you.

Remember the good olde day's when we heard from you everyday? I have

come to thee conclusion i took that for granted (oh how sorry i should be). Maybe someday againTry :-).

Well, have a Happy Thanksgiving and Christmas if i see no post's, Godbless paulaj.

Ditto

The question and answer are in the riddle itself. The riddles explains how puzzles and riddles are, and offers no real question. It leaves the mind to figure each out. What each is talking about is each other. Quite genius. Thumbs up.

Greetings and congratulations in equal measure Multakra.

Not only did I notice that your name is an anagram of Tulkaram:

Tulkarem or Tulkarm (Arabic: طولكرم‎, Ṭūlkarm; Hebrew: טול כרם) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank. It is located in the northern Samarian mountain range in the Tulkarm Governorate. The Israeli cities of Netanya and Haifa are to the west, the Palestinian Nablus and Jenin to the east.

This leads me to believe that we have met on the battlefields of Diablo III.

Which brings me to the number of your post: 11.672

The IP address "11.6.72.0" is located @ United States Ohio Columbus…

‘When I left, I didn't know where I was going; when I got there, I didn't know where I was; when I returned, I didn't know where I had been’.

Who was I?



And talking about 1492…

What about 34,969.
The A2K team were stumped.

"It's a square-root thing," I added, by way of explanation.
34,969 is 187 squared.

But why 187?

Tryagain turned to his readers for help…..

It may be noted that 187 is the total number of points on the tiles of a Scrabble game, speculating that I might have counted them.

187 is the product of two primes - 11 and 17 - which makes 34,969 a very fine number indeed, being 11 squared times 17 squared. What, I ask, could be lovelier?

Unless you have calculated that 187 is 94 squared minus 93 squared; and of course 187 is also 94 plus 93. An embarrassment of riches!

On the other hand; 187 is also…. ?
Who dun it.

May I also take this opportunity to wish both Paula J and TTL complements of the season, and may your dreams come true.

Pick an odd number - any odd number (call it N). Now divide it by two and round up and down to get two numbers (call them X and Y, X < Y). For example, if you picked N=187, then X=93 and Y=94.
Note that X+Y=N.
Also note that Y^2 - X^2 = N.
Even works for negative N.

I watched The Raven today and thought of you.

I am not sure why...other than your love of Edgar.

Poe? That is still left to interpretation. All I know is don't ever kill a crow in WA

I like pretty pictures.



The wavefunctions associated with the bound states of an electron in a hydrogen atom can be seen as the eigenvectors of the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian as well as of the angular momentum operator. They are associated with eigenvalues interpreted as their energies (increasing downward: n=1,2,3,...) and angular momentum (increasing across: s, p, d,...). The illustration shows the square of the absolute value of the wavefunctions. Brighter areas correspond to higher probability density for a position measurement. The center of each figure is the atomic nucleus, a proton.

Mark, once again your logic is as impeccable as it is flawless.
But how good are you with Christmas presents!

There are one thousand boxes and one thousand kids in the school.
The teacher asks the first kid to go to every box and open it.

Then has the second kid go to every second box and close it.

The third goes to every third box and, if it is closed, open it, and if it is open, close it.

The fourth kid does this to every fourth box, and so on.

After the process is completed with the thousandth kid; how many boxes are left open?

Have a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.



Hiya Mismi, what a coincidence; I was watching Lust in Barn and was thinking of you!
I’m not sure why…other than you rack my brains. Oh, and my love of hay lofts!
Prayers are with you in support of your Pa.

TTL I do believe you have the correct answer to:
187 is also…. ?

187 is also the number of the California Penal Code section describing murder; and not the character played by Coolio in the film Dracula 3000.

A new year beckons and with it new beginnings.


My dear Slippy I am embiggened by your visit, butt I must caution you about sitting on photocopiers (as in P2) no matter how artistically pleasing!

Although I would love to get my hands on your proton, most of the time in quantum mechanics, exact solution of the Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem of interest is not possible. To deal with that, approxi¬mations have to be made.

So my dear Slippy; Ho, Ho, Ho and have a most enjoyable festive occasion… ever.
And don’t even get me started on the Degenerate perturbation theory….. Although I have been called wickeder things!



Stocking filler:
Mark gave TTL 10 cents and he gave Slippy 15 cents (best not to ask!).
What time is it?


Take your time dudes as I will be incommunicado till the New Year.
Arrivederci.

I hope you don't mind me answering this question though you asked Mark...

Zero boxes...

1000 Boxes...

First opens them all...1000 open

Second closes them all...1000 closed...

Third opens them all...

Fouth closes them all...

1000 is an odd number which would mean they would all be closed again...