| Author | Message | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 368 Registered: 4-2010 |
7. 2. 0? | ||
| Galfisk (Galfisk)
New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 2016 Registered: 9-2009 |
Is someone saying this? Is "6!" part of the sequence? Start of the sequence? Is the 0 surprising? Puzzling? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 372 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is someone saying this? No Is "6!" part of the sequence? No Start of the sequence? No Is the 0 surprising? No Puzzling? No | ||
| Fermat1601 (Fermat1601)
New member Username: Fermat1601 Post Number: 7 Registered: 6-2010 |
If the title had been "[Balin] 7!" would the first post have been "5. 0. 4. 0?" ? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 400 Registered: 4-2010 |
If the title had been "[Balin] 7!" would the first post have been "5. 0. 4. 0?" ? No. But that is how I got the title - nice deduction! | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 216 Registered: 5-2010 |
Are these three numbers representative of something? The same things? Different things? Are they a sequence? Part of an equation? | ||
| Hominid (Hominid)
New member Username: Hominid Post Number: 239 Registered: 1-2010 |
Is this at all similar to the classic puzzle involving the club? Is a code relevant? Is multiplication involved? Addition? Subtraction? Division? Exponents? Roots? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 409 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are these three numbers representative of something? Yes! The same things? Yes Different things? No Are they a sequence? Yes Part of an equation? No Is this at all similar to the classic puzzle involving the club? Not at all Is a code relevant? No Is multiplication involved? Addition? Subtraction? Division? Exponents? Roots? None of these, although in a really lateral sense, subtraction would be involved. | ||
| Emeraldink (Emeraldink)
New member Username: Emeraldink Post Number: 491 Registered: 4-2007 |
6! = 720 | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 430 Registered: 4-2010 |
6! = 720 It does, but that's not relevant. Well, not really. That is how I came up with the puzzle title though - think about where you might find factorials. | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 219 Registered: 5-2010 |
So factorials are relevant? Are permutations relevant? Are they representative of actual objects? Or living things? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 448 Registered: 4-2010 |
So factorials are relevant? No, not at all, except where you will find them. Are permutations relevant? No Are they representative of actual objects? The numbers? Yesish Or living things? Yes! | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 220 Registered: 5-2010 |
Representative of people? Math Class? The number of people enrolled in the math class over time? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 450 Registered: 4-2010 |
Representative of people? Yes! Math Class? No... The number of people enrolled in the math class over time? Very close, but no | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 223 Registered: 5-2010 |
So is it number of people over time? Is school relevant? Textbook relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 457 Registered: 4-2010 |
So is it number of people over time? Yes! Is school relevant? Yes Textbook relevant? No | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 230 Registered: 5-2010 |
Are the people in question students? Teachers? | ||
| Gourami (Gourami)
Moderator Username: Gourami Post Number: 1194 Registered: 10-2008 |
Is it people in a particular place? In a building? Are people leaving? Dying? Disappearing mysteriously? Is 0 a question because it is puzzling? Possible, but not certain? Impossible? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 478 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are the people in question students? Yes Teachers? No Is it people in a particular place? Yesish In a building? Yope Are people leaving? Yes, but not always in the way you're thinking Dying? No Disappearing mysteriously? No Is 0 a question because it is puzzling? No Possible, but not certain? Yes Impossible? No | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 232 Registered: 5-2010 |
Is it the number of students awake over time? Present over time? Following the teacher over time? Is the time: length of the class? length of the school day? length of the semester? length of the school year? longer? in between any of those? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 484 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is it the number of students awake over time? Heehee, no Present over time? Yesish Following the teacher over time? No Is the time: length of the class? length of the school day? length of the semester? length of the school year? longer? Assuming "time" refers to the total time of all three numbers combined, this one in between any of those? | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 233 Registered: 5-2010 |
Is the time: 2 years? 3 years? 4 years? longer? Is the number decreasing because the students involved are graduating? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 487 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is the time: 2 years? 3 years? This 4 years? longer? Is the number decreasing because the students involved are graduating? YES! (Well, most of them are.) | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 234 Registered: 5-2010 |
Are they a specific group of students? A group of friends? They share a common interest? Is it a group you were involved in (I know you just recently graduated)? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 500 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are they a specific group of students? Yes A group of friends? Yes, but irr for this puzzle They share a common interest? Yes Is it a group you were involved in (I know you just recently graduated)? Yes | ||
| Emeraldink (Emeraldink)
New member Username: Emeraldink Post Number: 500 Registered: 4-2007 |
Membership in the Math Club? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 510 Registered: 4-2010 |
Membership in the Math Club? No. I was on math team though - good guess! HINT: The class/club itself is not math-related. | ||
| Emeraldink (Emeraldink)
New member Username: Emeraldink Post Number: 503 Registered: 4-2007 |
Are these relevant: number of relationships between entities? rehearsals? competition schedules? puzzles? reason for the declining membership? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 516 Registered: 4-2010 |
Are these relevant: number of relationships between entities? Elaborate please, but I think no. rehearsals? To the class, yes. The puzzle, no. competition schedules? No puzzles? No reason for the declining membership? Not really. | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 236 Registered: 5-2010 |
Was it an academic organization? A sport? Other game (chess?) Was it musical? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 527 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was it an academic organization? No A sport? No Other game (chess?) No Was it musical? YES!! Shouldn't be long now.... | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 241 Registered: 5-2010 |
Was it a school band? Or a garage band or something similar? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 578 Registered: 4-2010 |
Was it a school band? No Or a garage band or something similar? No | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 247 Registered: 5-2010 |
Is it music performance? Orchestra? Vocal? Choir? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 583 Registered: 4-2010 |
Is it music performance? Yes Orchestra? No Vocal? Yes Choir? YES! | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 292 Registered: 5-2010 |
ok, so do the numbers represent everyone in the choir? Or a subset of the group? Such as males? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 661 Registered: 4-2010 |
ok, so do the numbers represent everyone in the choir? No Or a subset of the group? Yes Such as males? Exactly! | ||
| It_so_happened (It_so_happened)
New member Username: It_so_happened Post Number: 293 Registered: 5-2010 |
So they are representative of the number of males in the choir over a period of time, which decreased as the males graduated? What should I be trying to figure out now? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 666 Registered: 4-2010 |
So they are representative of the number of males in the choir over a period of time, which decreased as the males graduated? Exactly right. What should I be trying to figure out now? Only why the 0 has a question mark after it; then this will have been $poyled. | ||
| Jenburdoo (Jenburdoo)
New member Username: Jenburdoo Post Number: 2736 Registered: 5-2003 |
Will there be one day none at all? Castrati relevant? | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 670 Registered: 4-2010 |
Will there be one day none at all? Quite possibly Castrati relevant? No This is pretty close, and this puzzle wasn't as good as I thought, so here's the **********SPOILER********** The numbers represent the number of guys in my high school choir over the years. Two years ago, there were 7. This year, 2. Next year, both guys (myself [tenor] and one other [bass]) will have graduated, so there may be no guys in choir next year. This is not good news to me, as I greatly enjoyed choir and would be saddened to see the male voices be absent from it. (Not that the girls are any bad - they're good, but our choir is best with mixed genders.) Nice work to everyone involved, especially It_so_happened for most of the work, and Jenburdoo for the coda. | ||
| Balin (Balin)
New member Username: Balin Post Number: 672 Registered: 4-2010 |
And some background information, as I'm sure some of you are wondering how a high school choir could have 7 guys in it: I went to a small, private, Christian school for pretty much my whole life (13 years). The high school consists of 120 students. Our choir two years ago had about 35 people, but membership dramatically dropped to 12 this past year. Next year...who knows? |
