<!--QuoteBegin-coil+Sep 18 2004, 12:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (coil @ Sep 18 2004, 12:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> There's probably an easy way to "legitimately" do this using a mouseover function. But yeah, amusing.
The other one, with the numbers, I got in two numbers -- Picked 22 (answer = 18) and then 68 (answer = 54) and lo and behold, those two numbers both had the same symbol next to them!
54 -> 45 80 -> 72 14 -> 9 35 -> 27
Notice how every single final # is a multiple of 9. Nice.
I saw a similar game where you had to go through all sorts of mathematical hurdles. Finally you end up with 9, from which you subtract 4 and get 5. Then the "magician" asks you to think of the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to that number (E), and then think of an animal that starts with that letter.
"Is it an elephant?" 99% of the time it is. *YOU* come up with another animal that starts with E in 5 seconds. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> 1... 2... 3... EMU!!! 4... 5...
From Guy B.: I am quite impressed, Mr. Pickover. I am quite sure that the other explanations for why your little ESP program works are totally incorrect, however, I am at a total loss, especially since I did the best I could to generate random numbers. I couldn't find any dice handy, so I used the Time of Day clock on my computer, and found its remander when divided by 3 for the first number; took out the first business card that came to hand and took the first phone number on there modulo 6, and then located a calculator and had it generate a pseudo-random number which I then did modulo 6. I did the little experiment 3 times, and your program "got" it all times. And, no, I did not say the name of the card aloud or stare at it or anything like that; it has nothing to do with what side of the side of the screen I clicked on. As I said before, I am quite impressed. I do not at this point know how to download and disassemble Java code, unfortunately, or maybe I could figure out how you did it. (Assuming you wrote this in Java.)
From: Petri Kotro (Finland) University of Lapland Dear Cliff, your program removed several times the card I named, even though I spoke Finnish when naming the card. There are not many people in Anglo-Saxon world who can read an Finno-Ugric mind that easy (or know any Finnish). Or maybe you're Celtic ? In that case, your programming skills would be quite intelligible. with best regards,
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<!--QuoteBegin-camO.o+Sep 18 2004, 04:31 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (camO.o @ Sep 18 2004, 04:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-silent_shadow900+Sep 18 2004, 04:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (silent_shadow900 @ Sep 18 2004, 04:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->oh wait now i get it, they take away your card, and the rest of the cards are left over... i was saying red queen for the longest time, and im like DAMMIT! IT DOESNT WORK! WHY DO I KEEP GETTING THE RED QUEEN! WHY WONT IT LEAVE. then i figured out it was all a lie because theres a diamond queen and a haert queen. i feel to betrayed. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> /hits head on table, again and again and again and again and again and again and again. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> hahahaha lol! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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The other one, with the numbers, I got in two numbers -- Picked 22 (answer = 18) and then 68 (answer = 54) and lo and behold, those two numbers both had the same symbol next to them!
54 -> 45
80 -> 72
14 -> 9
35 -> 27
Notice how every single final # is a multiple of 9. Nice.
I saw a similar game where you had to go through all sorts of mathematical hurdles. Finally you end up with 9, from which you subtract 4 and get 5. Then the "magician" asks you to think of the letter of the alphabet that corresponds to that number (E), and then think of an animal that starts with that letter.
"Is it an elephant?" 99% of the time it is. *YOU* come up with another animal that starts with E in 5 seconds. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
1... 2... 3... EMU!!! 4... 5...
I am quite impressed, Mr. Pickover. I am quite sure that the other explanations for why your little ESP program works are totally incorrect, however, I am at a total loss, especially since I did the best I could to generate random numbers. I couldn't find any dice handy, so I used the Time of Day clock on my computer, and found its remander when divided by 3 for the first number; took out the first business card that came to hand and took the first phone number on there modulo 6, and then located a calculator and had it generate a pseudo-random number which I then did modulo 6. I did the little experiment 3 times, and your program "got" it all times. And, no, I did not say the name of the card aloud or stare at it or anything like that; it has nothing to do with what side of the side of the screen I clicked on. As I said before, I am quite impressed. I do not at this point know how to download and disassemble Java code, unfortunately, or maybe I could figure out how you did it. (Assuming you wrote this in Java.)
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University of Lapland
Dear Cliff, your program removed several times the card I named, even though I spoke Finnish when naming the card. There are not many people in Anglo-Saxon world who can read an Finno-Ugric mind that easy (or know any Finnish). Or maybe you're Celtic ? In that case, your programming skills would be quite intelligible. with best regards,
Most of these are written by him, right? Right?!
/hits head on table, again and again and again and again and again and again and again. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
hahahaha lol! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
*skides pillow under cam0.o's head
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