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#1 andr99

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Posted 05 December 2020 - 05:17 PM

They would have admitted me to MIT 

 

 

12-15-20 solution given in 2 minutes.....using a proportion between two inner triangles and then Pitagora' s theorem. Quite simple. When I was at high school I would have taken 10 seconds.......back then I was better than I am now. Probably trading stocks got me confused...LOL 


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Posted 05 December 2020 - 05:22 PM

Probably I have suffered the same effect that others here have got through, at least one in particular. Just joking........LOL 


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Posted 05 December 2020 - 05:30 PM

Ah......I' m still bullish till year end, then we see 


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Posted 05 December 2020 - 06:12 PM

BULLISHHHHHH.....stock indexes, dow in particular


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Posted 05 December 2020 - 06:19 PM

better with this one 

 

 

five seconds

 

 

I' m recovering from my confusion........LOL

 

These tests make me laugh......they call them IQ tests..........ridicolous


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#6 Rogerdodger

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Posted 05 December 2020 - 06:29 PM

8+11 = 19 Unless you filed your taxes late, then it's 40. DUH!  LOL!

 

(I am currently working on my PhD in math. So far, I got a D.)

 

As Elon Musk opines:

Much of what people think of an science is actually engineering, eg no such thing as a “rocket scientist”, only rocket engineers. Latter is who put humans on the moon.

Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer
 
 
But IF: "Science is discovering the essential truths about what exists in the Universe, engineering is about creating things that never existed" then that makes me a comedian.
 
PS: LOVED the true story movie Hidden Figures

Seems like a bit of math was involved.

Three brilliant African-American women at NASA -- Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) -- serve as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit,

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#7 andr99

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Posted 06 December 2020 - 02:49 AM

the true IQ test from real life : given 300k euros......how can you double them in two years ? That matters a lot more than anything else, because that is real life not a school where the others may look at you as at an alien given that you a lot more skilled than them all, but you can' t get anything from that. As time passes by, the only thing that matters is money. The more you get, the more interesting you are. 


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#8 Rogerdodger

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Posted 06 December 2020 - 09:02 PM

On this date ...in 1865

The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865 and proclaimed on December 18.