YOUR AGE BY EATING OUT
Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway – but your waiter may know!
YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to go out to eat. (more than once but less than 10)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4. Multiply it by 50 (get the calculator out)
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759...
Or if you haven't, add 1758.
6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number
The first digit of this was your original number. (I.e., How many times you want to go out to restaurants in a week.)
The next two numbers are YOUR AGE ! ------ (Oh YES, it is!)
Restaurant Math
Restaurant Math
Because I told you before- oh, you can't do that.
Re: Restaurant Math
Pretty wild, Robert! It sure worked.
I'm no mathematician, but I'm sure there is a really easy explanation (they couldn't do it if I didn't enter in the year I was born--that's for sure!).
I'm no mathematician, but I'm sure there is a really easy explanation (they couldn't do it if I didn't enter in the year I was born--that's for sure!).
Re: Restaurant Math
Collin the easy explanation is that despite all the mathematical gymnastics meant to distract an individual that is computing the numbers presented, you always end up with the sum of 2009 before you subtract your birth year. There's no magic in that at all..............just smoke and mirrors. 
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” - Albert Einstein
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
Re: Restaurant Math
yeah...it's simple enough but still fun. I didn't create it, just passing it along for the amusement of others.
Because I told you before- oh, you can't do that.
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I didn't know I was 91...
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Re: Restaurant Math
We didn't want to tell you....jingle_jangle wrote:I didn't now I was 91...
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Seems my math is as bad as my speling this morning.
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I can't see anything wrong with your spellling...jingle_jangle wrote:Seems my math is as bad as my speling this morning.
Eden.
Re: Restaurant Math
+1winston wrote:Collin the easy explanation is that despite all the mathematical gymnastics meant to distract an individual that is computing the numbers presented, you always end up with the sum of 2009 before you subtract your birth year. There's no magic in that at all..............just smoke and mirrors.
There have been many variants of this over the years. But they can be fun!
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. - Seneca
Re: Restaurant Math
weemac wrote:I can't see anything wrong with your spellling...jingle_jangle wrote:Seems my math is as bad as my speling this morning.
Eden.
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
Re: Restaurant Math
Check your invoices- you may owe Paul some money.jingle_jangle wrote:Seems my math is as bad as my speling this morning.
Because I told you before- oh, you can't do that.