Homer

Try this one...



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> YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH
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> DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
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> It takes less than a minute....... Work this out as
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Anne4Terry

Ok, very good

tiredwithtwins

.....when i should have had a three digit number i had a four digit number....but the last three digits were right!!!!!

cool.....

mandi248

Briiliant, got my age right

The A Team

It worked for me

Xgeminix

Uncanny... figured it out whilst eating a packet of chocolate buttons!!

suzy

Spot on. Very clever smart a***.

Suzy

ABCDiamond

You didn't pick number 10 to begin with did you ?

fnord

Anyone over 100? If so, it won't work

(n*2+5)*50+1755-yyyy = n*100 + 250 + 1755 - yyyy =
n*100 + 2005 - yyyy

n*100 move the orginal 1-9 number into the 100s, so then you have 2005(2004)-yyyy which is how you work out your age normally.

Homer

Wondered how long it would be before we got a smart **** reply

DollyDaydream

No, my age was wrong, it should've been 21

Very clever homer!!!

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fnord

I know. Something inside forces me to pull the rug out from under these things. Really winds up my wife. I tried to stop myself. Do you know how difficult it is to type with one hand when the other is trying to stab it with a ball-point pen?

ABCDiamond

But ... do you know what's worse... when someone else points you to a 2004 thread ........ http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=258163

hevs

ROLMAO

ABCDiamond

And it gets worse........... from 2003 ... http://www.mirror.co.uk/webandgadget...ame_index.html

There are actually only 1,830 instances of it recorded on google

Funny thing is.....
they each end with something like:
"They say 2003 is the only year that this will work, so spread it around while it lasts."

or "They say 2004 is the only year that this will work, so spread it around while it lasts."

or "They say 2005 is the only year that this will work, so spread it around while it lasts."