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Post by Penguin45 on Jun 24, 2015 20:29:48 GMT
 Simples! Chris. |
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Post by indianajones on Jun 25, 2015 9:56:54 GMT
 -Andrew |
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Post by Penguin45 on Jun 26, 2015 9:38:21 GMT
 Looking at the blackboard, I think he's made a transpostion error on line 3, so it won't work..... Chris.
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Post by dave1800 on Jun 26, 2015 11:22:15 GMT
Actually the correct formula can be condensed to: (21057571-6842102) x 5 (Prize for the person who can crack this (answer on Monday) David Looking at the blackboard, I think he's made a transpostion error on line 3, so it won't work..... Chris. |
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Post by Nick RS on Jun 27, 2015 7:07:39 GMT
Ohhh, scallops to that.....  Nick |
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Post by Nick RS on Jun 28, 2015 21:40:18 GMT
Pocket calculators became widespread when I was at an impressionable age. Got one of those Texas ones with the red numbers somewhere in the house.
Answer is Shell oil (scallops see.....)
Nick
David will be along to explain while the world turns no doubt.
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Post by Penguin45 on Jun 28, 2015 22:38:59 GMT
Ah! Upside down.......
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Jun 28, 2015 22:40:38 GMT
You can do 7100553 as well. Haven't done this since I was a teenager.  Chris. |
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Post by dave1800 on Jun 29, 2015 0:18:54 GMT
Well done Nick and Chris! I'll go and crawl back into my shell now I guess the prize must go to Nick for answering first with his clever twist of the word "shell" but with Chris a close second for identifying another answer as well. Not sure what this says about the adminstrator and moderators of this forum, all knowing this from a more gentle period of UK history when Landcrabs were still rolling off the production lines. Enough nostalgia! My first calculator had a red LED display and was made by Sinclair. It lasted at least two months before the multiplexing function to drive the dispaly went wrong which left all the 8 digits flickering rapidly. Changing the capacitor and resistor didn't do anything. Shame, Sinclair was so clever ahead but product reliability wasn't the best. David Pocket calculators became widespread when I was at an impressionable age. Got one of those Texas ones with the red numbers somewhere in the house. Answer is Shell oil (scallops see.....) Nick |
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Post by snoopy11 on Jun 29, 2015 19:09:30 GMT
You can do 7100553 as well. Haven't done this since I was a teenager. Chris. Sorry, but everyone has missed the obvious. 28008 |
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