Forget dog years. This is your age in chocolate.
My mom emailed this my way. Play the game, then one of you math whiz types chime in and tell us how it’s done.
YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH
Don’t tell me your age; you’d probably lie anyway-but the Hershey Man will know!
YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH
This is pretty neat.
DON’T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read .
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4. Multiply it by 50 — I’ll wait while you get the calculator
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1760 . If you haven’t, add 1759.
6.. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number.
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:The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).The next two numbers are YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2010) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
Here’s another
1. pick a number 2-9 and mutiply it by nine
2. add that two digit number together
3. subtract 5
4. correspond that number with the number in the alphabet a=1, b=2 etc.
5. think of a country that begins with that letter
6. take the next letter in the alphabet and think of a mammal that starts with that letter.
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Your math skills seem pretty good but you need to work on your geography becuase there are no elephants in denamrk
Cute but meaningless. Kind of like the hello you can spell with a calculator.
Let’s say you were born in 1980 and are 30 years old. Depending on what number between 2 and 9 you pick, the formula spits out one of the numbers in the series 230, 330 … 930, where the hundreds digit is the number you picked and the other two digits are your age. Put simply, for any X you pick, the result is 100 times X plus your age. If you examine the steps you can see how this result is achieved. The creators of the formula break up the mathematical steps to hide what they’re up to, sneaky bastards.
The first few steps can be summed up as: (2X + 5) x 50.
This yields 100X + 250.
Next you add 1760. Since you’ve already added 250, what you’ve done so far results in 100X + 2010. Note that you’re adding the calendar year.
Now you subtract your birth year. This yields, in our example, 100X + 30.
So all you’ve done after all these steps is add your age to 100X. Remember that X is the number between 2 and 9 that you’ve picked. Plug in that value, and voila you have the result.
I want to add that it would have been more expedient but not as much fun if the creators had asked you to pick a number between 2 and 9, multiply that number by 100 and add your age. No one would have been surprised by the results, but that’s what you’re doing in the game in a roundabout way.
No Brian, this IS a waste of time and bandwidth. Chocolate is waaaay over rated.
Now, if you can come up with something involving chewy oatmeal raisin cookies…….