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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
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Try to guess
This is simple question, asked to Russian children when they enter school.
188 | 4 232 | 0 100 | 2 163 | 1 --------- 386 | ? Guess number and explain why you have chosen it. 
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Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
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Re: Try to guess
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I'll send my explanation to you by private message, okay?
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© Dr. Jan Stankievič "Ź historyji Biełarusi" ([…] just as it depends not on us to choose for ourselves parents, it depends not on us to choose for ourselves a nation; one can only perform or not perform the duties which are the consequence of belonging to his/her people)
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Re: Try to guess
I would guess 5,7, or 9. I'm not sure. But those numbers haven't appeared yet. I feel like 5 would feel natural, but I am not sure.
Or maybe I am wrong. I think maybe it could also be confined to numbers that have appeared already... but it can't be numbers that are in the three digit number. So it could logically be a 0,1,2, or 4. Or maybe it is a 4. I think 4. Maybe. It could be like a repeating number.. or perhaps it could be a 2 because it would be a pallindrome... Well.. those are my thoughts. A bit vague...
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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It's 7, isn't it?
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Re: Try to guess
Ok, I'll just quote what Whiteruthenian wrote to me. His answer is correct.
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Hehehe, nice. I was too busy looking for a mathematical or pattern-like solution.
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Re: Try to guess
Argh! I don't write 8 with circles. How could I have guessed?
 Anyway, it looks like a particular way to look at things probably culture-related. Or, well.. this is the best excuse that I can come out with after I sent svin the wrong answer via rep. comment. Basically I too was looking for a mathematical patten or combination. Since I couldn't find any relation and since this was a "basic school entry" test, I imagined that they might be up to something else and that there was no relation whatsoever. 
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'  We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Re: Try to guess
That's impressive. I too like the others was trying to come up with mathematical ways to answer it, even though I am terrible with mathematics.
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"I failed my metaphysics exam when my teacher caught me looking into the soul of the boy next to me" Some find it in a flag, some in the beat of a drum Some with a book, and some with a gun Some in a kiss, and some on the march But if you're looking for Europe, best look in your heart -Sol Invictus
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Adding insult to injury I see
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"I failed my metaphysics exam when my teacher caught me looking into the soul of the boy next to me" Some find it in a flag, some in the beat of a drum Some with a book, and some with a gun Some in a kiss, and some on the march But if you're looking for Europe, best look in your heart -Sol Invictus
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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Re: Try to guess
Ha! I couldn't enter this Russian school I've been thinking of for years.
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"Their trumpets again are of a peculiar barbarian kind; they blow into them and produce a harsh sound which suits the tumult of war."
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