Monday Quizzine
Well, we didn't have a winner on the last question, but it's still open for your input. Here's today's question:
How may years older or younger are you than the cube root of the sum of all of the prime numbers between 1 and 1000?
No need you show your work on this one.
Thanks and good luck!
How may years older or younger are you than the cube root of the sum of all of the prime numbers between 1 and 1000?
No need you show your work on this one.
Thanks and good luck!
posted by dewdew @ 5/16/2005 12:04:00 PM
5 Comments:
At May 17, 2005 1:02 PM,
Grend31 said…
That particular number, whatever it happens to be, is ancient. That is to say that the specific number has been around for forever.. since the dawn of the time so to speak. The number has always existed. So that number is, in fact, infinitely older than I am in terms of it's "age".
At May 17, 2005 2:16 PM,
MooCow said…
16 and change younger...
Math = fun.
At May 23, 2005 12:13 PM,
dewdew said…
Good job, Moo. You win again.
Grend31, while I must say that you are correct in a literal sense, you could have interpreted the question to read "cube root... in years..."
My apologies for assuming that the units were to be assumed.
Thanks for playing!
At May 23, 2005 12:44 PM,
MooCow said…
Well I totally cheated and wrote a Perl script to handle the math of it. So I only get half a prize.
At May 23, 2005 3:48 PM,
dewdew said…
Since there aren't any rules, that's not cheating. I didn't expect anyone to do this one "in their head".
I went to a website that listed the primes between 1 and 1000 and copied/pasted the data into Excel.
The fun part is figuring out how to solve the problem.
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