Friday, 11/21/08
Prepare sheet
for Test 5. (I hope you remembered to bring
it!)
Mental Floss
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What number is always found
in the middle of the telephone directory?
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A farmer challenges an engineer,
a physicist, and a mathematician to design a fence to fence off the largest
amount of area using the least amount of fence.
The engineer made his fence
in a circle and said it was the most efficient.
The physicist made a long
line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half
of the Earth was the best. The mathematician laughed at the others and
with his design, beat the others. What did he do?
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In a certain neighborhood in
certain city, there exist exactly 100 streets. Street 1 is named First
Street, street 2 is named Second Street, and so on and so forth. A traveller
decides to walk through all these streets in the neighborhood. He could
find all the streets except Street 62. No matter how hard he tried, he
could not find it. He later found that the locals had given the street
another name. What is the name?
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While riding in the car I saw
a license plate that read like this: IXMNIZ. What occupation did
the man in the car have?
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What famous saying is represented
here? zain yain xain wain vain uain tain sain rain
qain oain nain main lain kain jain iain hain fain eain dain cain bain aain
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A man made up a seven-character
password (letters and numbers only) for his e-mail account, and he
wanted to write it down somewhere in case he forgot it. But he didn't want
to write down the actual password, so he wrote this sentence: "You force
Heaven to be empty." Can you crack his password?
Test
5.
Time? Idiosyncrasy.