Now how the ...

[AlamoSpursFan]

...does this work??

http://trunks.secondfoundation.org/files/psychic.swf

You can confuse it by just looking at a symbol, but if you really do what it says to it works every freaking time.

[E20]

Stupid me........

[E20]

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[Tim Reynolds]

your answer is always going to be a multiple of 9 (thats the just way the math works) and so every time all the multiples of 9 will have the same symbol

i had a friend in school that was completly mind ed by this thing, last i heard of him he had dropped out, shaved his head, grew a beard, emptied all his bank accounts and was traveling to the far east to pay homage to the site

[E20]

your answer is always going to be a multiple of 9 (thats the just way the math works) and so every time all the multiples of 9 will have the same symbol

i had a friend in school that was completly mind ed by this thing, last i heard of him he had dropped out, shaved his head, grew a beard, emptied all his bank accounts and was traveling to the far east to pay homage to the site

Can you elucidate please.

[Tim Reynolds]

Can you elucidate please.

sure, no matter what number you start with...

lets say 52- which would be 5+2=7 then 52-7= 45
or 11- which would be 1+1=2 then 11-2= 9
or 99- which would be 9+9=18 then 99-18= 81

...you are going to end up with an answer (ie the number you match to a symbol) that is a multiple of 9 (9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81)

now if you look at the chart the symbols look random but they arent, for all those multiple of 9 numbers (the only possibe answer you can come up with if you do the math right) the symbol will always be the same, so no matter what multiple of 9 you end up with it will always be the same symbol as the one that comes up in the magic ball

[E20]

sure, no matter what number you start with...

lets say 52- which would be 5+2=7 then 52-7= 45
or 11- which would be 1+1=2 then 11-2= 9
or 99- which would be 9+9=18 then 99-18= 81

...you are going to end up with an answer (ie the number you match to a symbol) that is a multiple of 9 (9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72, 81)

now if you look at the chart the symbols look random but they arent, for all those multiple of 9 numbers (the only possibe answer you can come up with if you do the math right) the symbol will always be the same, so no matter what multiple of 9 you end up with it will always be the same symbol as the one that comes up in the magic ball

Wow, I just noticed that the symbols always differniate after you click try again and the multiples of 9 all have the same symbol. Brilliant.

[ShoogarBear]

It's simple algebra:

10x + y -(x+y) = 9x.

Not only is it always a multiple of 9, it is simply 9x the first number.

[Tim Reynolds]

It's simple algebra:

10x + y -(x+y) = 9x.

Not only is it always a multiple of 9, it is simply 9x the first number.

even more simple:

where z= original number
and x= first digit
and y= second digit

then 9x = z -(x+y)

[E20]

90 and 99 are mutliples of 9, but do not carry the same symbols as the others..........

[ShoogarBear]

even more simple:

where z= original number
and x= first digit
and y= second digit

then 9x = z -(x+y)

How is that "more simple", when your first three statements are just "z=10x+y" in more words?

[Slomo]

90 and 99 are mutliples of 9, but do not carry the same symbols as the others..........

The highest result you can get is 81:

99 - 9+9=18 then 99-18= 81

So it doesn't really matter which sign 90 and 99 are...

[PakiDan]

The magic ball has told me to kick your a$$. As you wish oh mighty magic ball.

[AlamoSpursFan]

simple algebra

"I'll take 'Words That Don't Go Together' for $1000, Alex"



I never should have written "Math Sucks" in that algebra text book.

[George W Bush]

I don't understand chinese.