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# Psychic Flash Thingy
A variation on an old theme, buggered if I have the brains to figure out how it works though.Now I just feel like a mong. :-)
(mode80, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:04, archived)
# and an extremely glassy
male chicken if ever there was one.
I'm afraid.
And last time it came up, a number of people gave full mathematical explanations (myself included).
It was great fun all round
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:05, archived)
# It's simple
but only cos my boyfriend told me how
(I helped save b3ta! Penile, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:05, archived)
# ha!
I actually figured it out for myself, because i'm great.

I actually did, honest
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:08, archived)
# me
too. yay us.
(I helped save b3ta! stouffer, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:09, archived)
# I actually know the history
of the thing... I'm kinda sad like that.

Comes with the job though I guess.
(I helped save b3ta! Andi is member 695 so have some damn respect, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:11, archived)
# i had two goes
and then sussed it.
(martian, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:18, archived)
# ..
thats a cockage from the glassage.
(I helped save b3ta! Obz Click, ting, stamps, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:07, archived)
# very simple, old trick
9, 18, 27, 36, etc. are always the same symbol. You always get a multiple of nine in the result...

11. 1+1 = 2, 11-2 = 9
12. 1+2 = 3, 12-3 = 9
13. 1+3 = 4, 13-4 = 9

and so on.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:07, archived)
# dammit.
beaten.
(I helped save b3ta! stouffer, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:08, archived)
# i saw this before
worked it out but took a long time
(dex, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:09, archived)
# well it didn't take me long.
i figured that the silly sum had to be the key, so i just put consecutive numbers into the formula, and noticed the pattern.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:10, archived)
# you can
only get 9, 18, 27, 36 etc. they always have the same symbol.
(I helped save b3ta! stouffer, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:08, archived)
# The same symbol that changes
if you know what I mean. I never knew the bit about the 9's, but sussed that the symbol was changing.
(I helped save b3ta! Penile, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:10, archived)
# The only possible
answers are multiples of nine - from 9 to 81, all those numbers have the same symbol.
It really is the Krypton Factor.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:09, archived)
# Well if you think about it,
your number can be expressed in the form 10x+y, e.g. 34 = (3x10)+4.

Then you subtract the first digit (i.e. x), and the second digit (y), so you perform:

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

Therefore the number you end up with will be a factor of 9. All the factors of 9 have the same symbol.

QED.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:09, archived)
# okay, well
algebraic equations aside, how come you can keep getting different symbols?
(mode80, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:12, archived)
# every time it reloads
it puts a different symbol there. To prove it to yourself, clicking on the bowl will always give the symbol at 9.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:13, archived)
# got it now
cheers
(mode80, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:14, archived)
# Because
All multiples of nine have the same symbol which changes everytime you have a go. For example if 9 has a smiley face, so would 18, 27, 36 etc. The next round they would all change to a triangle or whatever. Basically all multiples of nine keep the same symbol. When one changes, they all do
(I helped save b3ta! Penile, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:17, archived)
# hmm
if 10x+y, e.g. 64 = (3*x-7)+4 + 83.

Obviously,

10x + y - x - y = 9x + ab^64 = [$334]p

Therefore

x=x and y = y + a badger.
(I helped save b3ta! Obz Click, ting, stamps, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:13, archived)
# yes,
i was going to say that.
(I helped save b3ta! isthisyou?, Tue 4 Mar 2003, 17:24, archived)