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Posted By: The Tiny Toad <zorkar@yahoo.com> In Response To: numerical puzzle (steve)
Date: 31 May 2001, 11:46
> Using excel, I've noticed that if you take the difference of each number
> with its neighbor, and sum up all the differences for each dial, the sum
> of these differences for _each_ dial is zero.
> e.g., dial 1 (left dial)
> 37-19 = 18
> 19-50 = -31
> 50-62 =-12
> 62-75 = -13
> 75-20 = 55
> 20-34 = -14
> 34-41 = -7
> 41-37=4
> 18-31-12-13+55-14-7+4=0
Hmm. Good thinking, but that formula works with any numbers. That prime number stuff was interesting though. Wonder what it means?
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