Puzzle

[bjmacca]

anyone know how this works

www.wimps.com

[Brettster]

Yes you type it into a web browser like Firefox and it displays the website :mat: :P :P

but on another note

it looks like an adware phishing site.

avoid!!!

[Rob]

there are hundreds of these sites, search for any topic with yahoo/google/msn etc and one of the results in the top 10 will be a site like this - totally useless !!!!

[eXOBeX]

Fake search engines. Ultimate Search is one example. They wait for a popular domain to expire, then register it themselves and whack a crap search site on it. Not only that, they add a robots.txt file to the site that stops you accessing the old site with the Wayback Machine.

Examples:-

www.ultsearch.com

www.djamanda.com

www.hardware-update.com (hijacked from Microsoft!)

www.wbw.com

www.primealliancecyclingteam.com

Look familiar? Notice how all the stuff on the page seems to be very closely related to all the spam we get!

A more detailed example of what's going on is given here.

(Incidentally I tried grabbing www.ultsearch.co.uk when it became available, but missed out by a couple of hours. Got www.ult-search.co.uk instead, though - but it's never going to be a fake search site!)

[bjmacca]

cant type.

meant this site

[Matthew_McNally]

mathematically, (where x=the "tens" part of the number and y=the "ones")

10x + y - (x+y)

simple algebra then says that is equal to 9x , as you can re-write that equation as (10x - x) + y - y

or 9x

so - whatever numbers you pick - the answer will always be a multiple of 9.

therefore - the flash puzzle only ever shows the symbol for a multiple of nine.

Check the chart - how many different symbols are there for the multiples of 9?

[Lex-aholic]

mathematically, (where x=the "tens" part of the number and y=the "ones")

10x + y - (x+y)

simple algebra then says that is equal to 9x , as you can re-write that equation as (10x - x) + y - y

or 9x

so - whatever numbers you pick - the answer will always be a multiple of 9.

therefore - the flash puzzle only ever shows the symbol for a multiple of nine.

Check the chart - how many different symbols are there for the multiples of 9?

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Wow, somebody's been doing their homework.

[bjmacca]

mathematically, (where x=the "tens" part of the number and y=the "ones")

10x + y - (x+y)

simple algebra then says that is equal to 9x , as you can re-write that equation as (10x - x) + y - y

or 9x

so - whatever numbers you pick - the answer will always be a multiple of 9.

therefore - the flash puzzle only ever shows the symbol for a multiple of nine.

Check the chart - how many different symbols are there for the multiples of 9?

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Wow, somebody's been doing their homework.

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sorry i asked iv'e gor a headache now need a lie down whrn you a minute can you trsnslate it into scouse for me :D :D :D

[Matthew_McNally]

Wow, somebody's been doing their homework.

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thats simple mathematics.

learned it when I was about 12 I think.

[MrADeveci]

thats simple mathematics.

learned it when I was about 12 I think.

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........ about 4 years ago then ! :D

[Lex-aholic]

thats simple mathematics.

learned it when I was about 12 I think.

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........ about 4 years ago then ! :D

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nice one

The last time I learned maths we were using abacuses !!

[bjmacca]

thats simple mathematics.

learned it when I was about 12 I think.

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........ about 4 years ago then ! :D

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nice one

The last time I learned maths we were using abacuses !!

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can i blame the missing digit? :P

[Steve]

the missus got it in a flash.. brainbox

matthew went to a monk school :D

[aido]

matthew went to a monk school :D

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So that explains the bald spot

The number 9 is very strange in mathematic circles :D

[bjmacca]

matthew went to a monk school :D

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So that explains the bald spot

The number 9 is very strange in mathematic circles :D

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the no9 is a bloody funny shaped circle :D

[aido]

It's all I can draw when I've had a few Stella's :D

[bjmacca]

It's all I can draw when I've had a few Stella's :D

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a boxing ring is square :P