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Cool Math Trick

Monday, October 17, 2005 by Agent W

This math trick is really cool. Just try it!

1. Grab a calculator (You won't be able to do this one in your head)
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the area code-if your number is 01-123-4567, the 1st 3 digits are 123)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2

Do you recognize the answer?

[from TarTee]

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  1. Anonymous Jason   at  December 10, 2005 1:35 PM
    nice trick. To the non math nerds, it works out to:

    x = first 3 digits of phone number
    y = last 4 digits

    =[250(80x+1) + (2y - 250)] / 2
    =[20000x + 250 + 2y - 250] / 2
    =[20000x + 2y] / 2
    = 10000x + y
    = your phone number :)    


  2. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 1:59 PM
    Sorry mate, not even close.. yes, i did the maths right, i did it 3 times just to be sure.

    guess it dont work with english phone numbers.    


  3. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 2:02 PM
    Lol this Totaly WoRKed ProPs    


  4. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 2:10 PM
    Here's another cool tric. You take the first three digits of your phone number. Then you take the last 4 digits of your phone number.
    Put them next to eachother in that same order.

    tadaa!    


  5. Anonymous mark   at  December 10, 2005 2:35 PM
    doesn't seem to workf or canadian numbers :(    


  6. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 2:38 PM
    DOESNT WORK IF YOUR PH# ENDS WITH 0. IE 0356    


  7. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 2:46 PM
    man, i hate these maths 'magic' - it is like saying "take the number of brain-cells you have, now add one to it, now subtract one from it. Ta-da! your original number!!"

    BTW if you want one that works with UK phone numbers (if you hate life) then try this :

    take the first 3 digits of your phone number (not area code) and multiply them by 24
    add 5

    multiply by 125

    Add the last 3 digits of your phone No.
    Add the last 3 digits of your phone No. again.
    Add the last 3 digits of your phone No. again.

    divide it by 3000000 and add the digits of your area code then divide by 1000. (you need a computer calculator to display all the digits.

    TA-DA! another stupid trick!    


  8. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 2:51 PM
    blast, forgot the "subtract 15000" inbetween adding last 3 digits and dividing by 3000000

    also, divide by 10000 not 1000    


  9. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 3:02 PM
    It works, just remember when using the calculator on the computer to hit equals after every time you do shit.    


  10. Anonymous Flow   at  December 10, 2005 4:29 PM
    doesn't work with german numbers either.    


  11. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 5:07 PM
    it doesnt work with english numbers coz they are 6 digitsa where american ones are 7. trust the americans to be different to the rest of the world... starting wars, electing bush, and the best one 'sod global warming, we sort it when it hapopens' its happening !!!!!!    


  12. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 5:10 PM
    It seems to me like you are having trouble typing, why don't you get that cock out of your mouth so then you can type better?    


  13. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 5:33 PM
    Australian phone numbers have eight numbers. :/. no.. im not including the area code...    


  14. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 5:44 PM
    Actually the person who said english numbers have 6 digits is wrong. Different areas in the uk have different amount of digits.

    I have 7 in mine, not including area code.    


  15. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 6:04 PM
    mine has 8... it works.. even if i tried using 1st 4 numbers instead of 3... and it gives me the full 8 numbers back    


  16. Anonymous Swanie   at  December 10, 2005 7:46 PM
    Hi all,

    It should work with any number. Doesn't matter anything as long as you put 3 digits for the first number and 4 digits for the second.

    Here is the trick as Jason proved too.
    answer = [{[(n*80)+1]*250}+2*y-250]/2;
    = [{(n*80*250)+1*250}+2*y-250]/2;
    = [n*80*250 + 250 + 2*y - 250]/2;
    = [n*80*250 + 2*y]/2;
    = n*40*250 + y;
    = n*10000 + y;

    So if n = 123 and y = 2345, then
    answer = 1230000 + 2345 = 1232345

    if n = 001 and y = 0879, then
    answer = 0010000 + 0879 = 10879 = 0010879

    So, strange?? yes or no :p    


  17. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 8:15 PM
    It dosent work with danish numbers, either!    


  18. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 8:15 PM
    It dosent work with danish numbers, either!    


  19. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 9:46 PM
    it works with any 7 digit number    


  20. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 10:21 PM
    you have to press equals after each instruction other wise it wont work... it does work with english numbers!    


  21. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 10:34 PM
    Does not work when your last 4 digits start with 0. Calcs dont add that 0. Math sucks! LOL So this is what my math teacher ment when she said I need math in the real world!    


  22. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 10, 2005 11:19 PM
    After reading all your posts, then picking myself up off the floor from laughing so hard.... I tried it! It definitely works on Canadian #'s. I tried it a few times without it coming close to my phone number, then I took the advise of the the person who pleaded that we press the = sign afer each instruction (he/she was right).    


  23. Anonymous MisterCabron   at  December 10, 2005 11:40 PM
    i got one for all of you!

    take the first three digits of your telephone number, multiply them by 10 and the result is the times you gotta shove a broom up your ass.

    taaaa-fuckin-daaaaaaaaaaaa.    


  24. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 12:14 AM
    fuck that english toolbag thats ripping on America.. he's just jealous because his country is run by a bunch of pussies and everybody knows it.    


  25. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 12:50 AM
    "...he's just jealous because his country is run by a bunch of pussies..."

    This from a person who's county is run by someone called "Bush". Who said you guys had no sense of humour.    


  26. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 12:55 AM
    yeh right he is jealous of america, he wishes his country was arguably the most hated nation in the world, was the land of the obese and not so intellectuals, gave us industrialisation, introduced agriculture, and merchantilism, not to forget democracy lol, oh no sorry must have had you confused with the rest of the world i meant to say introduced us to mcd's. So i think the question is to be a pussy and have a brain, or to be dunce and pride yourself on the fact that your complete ideology is based around what exactly?? oh i remeber something to do with 'god bless america' what god would that be? the one in rome, in israel, in arabia, in, china, in india, in the uk? whose god is supose to be blessing you exactly, oh yes i forgot again was mistaking you for the rest of the world... but i supose we can be jealous of your ableness to kill without regard, and only some americans would think that was something to be jealous off, some like you.

    No offense to normal americans which most of you are, and your country does have many good things but alas there are some nobheads which seem to take pride in the wrong things and feel their country looks better by slating someone elses so i thought he should have some of it in return as anything else would have gone over his head.

    Back to dl. *bows*    


  27. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 1:07 AM
    Wasnt it the English who started the internet, now thats something to be jealous of.    


  28. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 1:15 AM
    the english are better than any fuckin americans    


  29. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 1:34 AM
    now this is weird: i did the trick and it didn't work - or that's what i thought! 'cause when i dialed the number i got in the end, my mailbox picked up! but it wasn't my number! does that mean i'll die in seven days or something like that?    


  30. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 2:41 AM
    seriously wtf... if you even have a basic comprehension of math and look at the problem for about 2 seconds its apparent that firstly the 250s cancel eachother out (a very tired way of thinly disguising the intent of the equation)... and oh lets think, 80 * 250 / 2... OMFG that makes 1000! heyyyyy thats clever!!!!

    get a life    


  31. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 2:53 AM
    " Anonymous said...

    Wasnt it the English who started the internet, now thats something to be jealous of.

    December 11, 2005 1:07 AM "

    No, but neither did america. The Internet was invented by CERN in switzerland.    


  32. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 2:55 AM
    Yes, these "maths tricks" that people forward in emails and everything are completely laughable to anyone with an iq above about 40. Seriously.    


  33. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 5:38 AM
    Fuck brits fuck the US of fucking A Fuck every fucking corner of this forsaken world becuase all of you fucking people make me sick. All you do is bash each others countries thinking one is better than the other one, but think of this we are all different thats how we are so just get over it. becuase face the fact that if you dont, well we will end up destoying ourself with all that is going on dont you think that it's enough.m beside If you want to know the truth there is a Asteroid by the name of apophis that is going to wipe us out in 29 years. Google and you'll see for your self, it is completely pointless to worry about such petty differences when the world is in danger and we have the resourse & technology to resolve this threat if you and the rest of the world world join for once you might make it. My ceal is Kregon my mark is ADDU-TG-110-USCC. I do not care if you do this for each other just do it for your own survival. Because frankly I quite like living dont you. Oh in case you were wondering what the ceal ect. is Necronomicon givin to me by the U.S.C.C.(United States Covenant Council) U.S. Not being of america states of seventy six of the covanants.    


  34. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 6:00 AM
    I have no idea what the last poster was on about but they need to take their head out of their arse.

    "there is a Asteroid by the name of apophis that is going to wipe us out in 29 years. Google and you'll see for your self"

    Actually Google won't turn up much at all but a wiki search indicates that this asteroid is no threat at all.    


  35. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 7:09 AM
    I saw we should round you all up...put you in a field and...leave you there with a bunch of sheep to shag you bunch of faggots!.
    Thats aimed at the gung-ho wannabe heroes that turn a post about a maths trick into a race hate...shame on you!.
    Now going back to the ACTUAL topic in hand...the trick is mildly amusing but as plenty have said..its dependant on your number not having a zero at the start of either the first three or last four numbers...and I'm leavin it there cuz anymore talk on this is a distraction from nickin another movie :).    


  36. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 12:47 PM
    Why are you all so fucking stupid, to make the trick work u can use any phone number as long as:
    Where it says the "first 3 numbers" if your number is more or less then 7 digits you simply take "the number of digits in your phone number, subtract by 4"
    IF your number starts with 0 then it won't work and its just bad luck for you coz the rest of us have numbers which start with a non-zero.    


  37. Anonymous freebies   at  December 11, 2005 1:56 PM
    ok I dbl checked and it works for Canadian numebers too... and perhaps others? I'm guessing ppl misinterpeted it when it comes to:

    6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
    7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again

    So, if your last 4 digits are 4587, DO NOT add 4+5+8+7, but add 4587.

    try it out!    


  38. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 1:58 PM
    here is another nice tricked was passed on to me b y my dad:

    1. take a calculator
    2. type in "12345679" (no 8)
    3. times it by any number multiplied by 9,
    lets say you want 5, 5*9=45, so 12345679*45=?

    try multiplying by: 9,18,27,36 and so on...    


  39. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 3:59 PM
    I just have to agree with post #33.    


  40. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 5:09 PM
    man some people on this site dumbasses..obvioiusly this was posted by someone with a 7 digit phone number(who's gona sit and try to figure this out for anything differnt from their own?)Yes it works for canada and the states coz they got 7 digit phone numbers(without the area code).... And for the record BUSH is an idiot..we all know it..u can be proud bout being american but don't defend an idiot...Mind u some americans are dumbasses... Seriously for the 10th billion time
    WE(canadians) don't live in iglos and our bankin machines are not made of ice    


  41. Anonymous Aghaster   at  December 11, 2005 11:14 PM
    It did work with my number (Quebec, Canada)

    But this trick is lame. It would have been kewl if it really was something useful, like finding another part of a phone number or other info using some part of it with some math calculus.    


  42. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 11, 2005 11:55 PM
    this doesnt work with the emergency number in the u.s. (911)    


  43. Anonymous John Wiseman   at  December 12, 2005 12:03 AM
    No dice with Canadian numbers.    


  44. Blogger footballplayr69   at  December 12, 2005 12:06 AM
    if anyone cuts down the country I live in, or the president that runs it, I will be very disapointed, because I support our president, the war, and the democracy that we have and that we are setting up in iraq    


  45. Blogger d'elegance   at  December 12, 2005 12:07 AM
    "" Anonymous said...

    Wasnt it the English who started the internet, now thats something to be jealous of.

    December 11, 2005 1:07 AM "

    No, but neither did america. The Internet was invented by CERN in switzerland. "




    you're all wrong. ARPANET, the precursor to the internet was an [b]American[/b] project. In to 90's CERN was the one who was responsible the WWW project and the first ever web pages.    


  46. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 12, 2005 2:19 AM
    In Holland, it adds a 'zero' in the result.    


  47. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 12, 2005 2:24 AM
    it works even when the last 4 numbers stasrt with 0.    


  48. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 12, 2005 9:21 AM
    The thing with 12345679... that's actually pretty interesting, I remember it from before... here's how it works

    37 * 3 = 111
    37037 * 3 = 111111
    37037037 * 3 = 111111111

    37 /3 = 12.333
    37037 /3 = 12345.666
    37037037 /3 = 12345679

    oh here's another trick for squaring numbers

    X^2 = (X-1)(X+1) + 1... and also
    X^3 = ((X-1)(X+1)X) + X... because you just take the first equation and multiply by X

    it's all simple grade... something math... you could even do
    X^2 = (X-73)(X+4) +292, if you wanted to...    


  49. Blogger jms   at  December 12, 2005 11:12 PM
    If your phone number is 6 digits then in the step 2:

    2. Key in the first two digits of your phone number, the 1st 2 digits are 123)

    And if your phone number is 7 digits then in the step 2:

    2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number, the 1st 3 digits are 123)

    and so....    


  50. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 13, 2005 8:35 PM
    fucking nerd cunts!    


  51. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 13, 2005 8:35 PM
    fucking nerd cunts!    


  52. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 15, 2005 12:30 PM
    For all those that say "oh it doesn't work with Canadian numbers (or any 7 digit numbers), blah blah blah", You can't do it all at once. You have to do each line at a time.

    Example for those who STILL don't get it:

    Phone number: 987-6543
    987 * 80 THEN PRESS EQUAL
    You get your answer then ADD 1 then PRESS EQUAL
    and so on and so forth.

    And to the dense fuck that said "fucking nerd cunts", at least we use our brains for something; the only thing you probably do is give all the blood in your head to blood boy down there. gtfo. kthxbye.    


  53. Anonymous Anonymous   at  January 01, 2006 1:02 AM
    OMG this is so cool. Chin pie!    


  54. Anonymous Guest   at  November 24, 2006 9:57 PM
    Why does this math "trick" work for all americanized telephone numbers?    


  55. Anonymous Candi   at  January 17, 2007 6:30 AM
    sparkling-paradise56.piczo.com

    hey, peeps try this..its so fuckin funny!!!

    okay
    Pamela Anderson weighed 69 pounds
    ( type 69 )
    she figured she was 222 fat!
    ( type 222 )
    So she went to Doctor X
    ( click X )
    And he gave her 8 pills
    ( type 8 )
    Then she came out...
    ( turn calculator upside down )


    haha. hell yea.    


  56. Anonymous candi   at  January 17, 2007 6:32 AM
    okay okay wait wait wait lol did it wrong

    Right way::

    okay
    Pamela Anderson weighed 69 pounds
    ( type 69 )
    she figured she was 222 fat!
    ( type 222 )
    She wanted to be 51 pounds
    ( type 51 )
    So she went to Doctor X
    ( click X )
    And he gave her 8 pills
    ( type 8 )
    Then she came out...
    ( turn calculator upside down )    


  57. Anonymous Anonymous   at  May 01, 2007 1:22 AM
    for some stupid smart arse who said that any one with "basic mathematical comprehension" fackk aff, the two 250s do not cancel each other out, actually.
    hmmph, that was just annoying me.
    =\    


  58. Anonymous Anonymous   at  July 09, 2007 11:09 AM
    ok.. to all the stupid people saying that it doesn't work with danish or english numbers... it works with any 7 digit number, learn to use a calculator.. and its a stupid trick.. 2+2-2=2...    


  59. Anonymous Anonymous   at  July 13, 2007 5:48 PM
    YOU SHOULD MENTION THAT THIS TRICK HAS TO BE USED ONLY WITH 7 DIGIT NOS. most of the nos out here are 10 digit dude    


  60. Anonymous Anonymous   at  November 12, 2007 2:40 AM
    IT DOESNT WORK WITH MARTIAN NUMBERS    


  61. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 07, 2007 3:57 PM
    1+1=2 and stuf like that    


  62. Anonymous Anonymous   at  December 07, 2007 3:59 PM
    Hello world whats up (or down)!=>    


  63. Anonymous Anonymous   at  February 12, 2008 12:21 AM
    This is wrong, it does not work with my phone number. (928)345-5101. As a matter of fact my phone number stopped working after doing this.    


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