2002 + 2 !!

Or 2*2*3*167 :) Isn't that weird how normally math problems in contests always use the year as a number in the problems? Eh... maybe I'm just weird.

In the book calld "Pi in the sky" thay hav the year number on the math problems, but thay ar rely hard qestins, and I try to figer it out sum I can sum I cant. 1 time I ask sumbudy, "Wat kind uv books do you want? Pi in the sky, or Pi on the table?"

Boy is McElroy going to have a feild day with this one. I won't touch it, mainly because I don't know where to start.

-W-

Now now, we all have to learn english sometime (or so it seems). You can't blame anybody for bad foriegn spelling. However, if he isn't foreign... Oh jeeeeeze!

I doubt that many people that learn English as a second language would spell "of" as "uv"!

MWM

He's from Canada.

i dunno sum ppl tak lik dis 2 abbr. wurdz but imo it duznt help @ all n it rely annoyz ppl a lot u no evry1 can typ bttr thn dis, so u rely shud ok?

Something I found funny is that you brain only looks at the first and last letters of a word when you're reading...if a wrod is meslpslied, you can slitl cnuinote rinaedg as lnog as the fsrit and lsat lteetrs are palecd in the rhgit sopt...See? that wasn't TOO difficult to read was it?

No, that was damn freaky. More so than McElroy finding a picture of me on the internet.

-W-

hehe.

Possible, but the "continue" was really hard.

So THAT's what that word was.

It took me a while also.

MWM

I aggree - I had to look at the next word to use context clues...

So, does this mean that I really am dyslexic?

-W-

No, you're just slydexic.

Slydexic no just, you're :).

Eh, dyslexia isn't THAT bad, at least, I don't think. Though, I assume it could range in severity. I once saw this thing- it was supposed to be how the first page of the book Moby Dick would look to an average dyslexic person. It was _really_ hard to read.

Llac em Leamhsi...

MWM

Eh, it wasn't like that, perfectly horizontally flipped. In that case, it wouldn't be all THAT hard to read it, I guess. You'd just learn the other way, and that would become normal to you.

it can be cured with blue celephane glasses(eyeglasses)

I think that is only in certain cases, but sounds interesting...

Rlaely? I nveer hvae a plrbeom rdniaeg tshee tgnihs. I jsut raed oevr it lkie it's rgualer txet. The sracy prat is wehn I dno't eevn nctoie the erors!

LOL!! That would be scary... BTW, that wasn't *so* hard to read.

I can easily read that. If the topic of the sentence wasnt about the sentence, then I doubt i would have noticed it.

The only trouble that I had was with the word "part". He had spelled it "prat" which is an actual word. It did not fit, so I was slightly confused.

-W-

Yeah, the only time that it becomes hard to read is when there are multiple ways to interpret it with the same letters...

Yeah... my friend thinks it doesn't work because of exceptions like three<->there. Still... by context, you can usually tell what they meant anyway, and since, for this, you KNOW it's misspelled(sp?), that makes it easier.
I think this is one of those times where I talk too much.

you spelled misspelled right

When**

I need to get more sleep.

yeah, I saw that harvard study. wacky. but mostly just freaky.

(see title)
I saw this in another board hangout for nerds (sparknotes.com: see URL for specific post).

I still haven't figured it out.

its in finnish, unless you know finnish youre not gonna figure it out :)

LOL!!! That WOULD explain it...

Well, when they're THAT big...

The thing word that came to my mind when I saw the first word was hypnotizing but that doesn't really fit, does it? :-\

"its in finnish, unless you know finnish youre not gonna figure it out :)"

Oops, didn't see that. Haha. :-D That makes me feel better.

It works better if only two lettres are out of plcae so the word isn't too mispselled...

very nice one

eh, don't you go insuulting ous Canandians, or you will get aboot what's comin for you

LOL! Actually, I didn't mean it that way, but it does kind of look like that, since the first sentence I started out with was "He's from Canada." :)

I take offense to your remark about canada. Though some canadians may or may not have an accent, they know how to spell 'of'. That was an improper remark you made. what? do you think the US is better than canada? just across the river from detroit, in canada, there is a murder every five or so years. in detroit, someone dies almost every day. canada has gun deaths in the 80 170 range per year. americas gun related deaths are in the tens of thousands. Still think canadians are retarted? Is it because canada has less guns? i laugh at you. they probably have more guns than the united states... everyone goe hunting... everyone has a gun. Canada also has country wide health care... FOR EVERYONE! EVERY CITIZEN! America does not.
im not saying canada is better than america, im saying you dont know what your talking about, so please be considerate when referring to our neighbors to the north, or any country for that matter. im not the most considerate person out there, but dont slang a whole country because of your unbased opinions.

sorry about that goe hunting thing... i meant to say goes... lol typo sorry.

Hold it, hold it... I doubt that no_one_2000_ was making fun of Canada. When I stated that most people that don't speak English nativly know how to spell "of", I was pointing out that zzo38's poor orthography was a result of slang rather than ignorance. As we were talking about if zzo38 spoke Engish nativly or not, no_one simply pointed out that zzo38 is Canadian. (Look at his profile thing.) I don't think that he was saying that zzo38 is Canadian because he did not spell "of" correctly. (But maybe he did... we'll have to see what he has to say about it.)

MWM

There we go, thank you for clearing that up. Yes, that is what I was trying to say (I write a reply below), that he was from Canada, I wasn't saying that Candians can't spell.

well, it did sound a lot like an explanation of his bad spelling, but I forgive you (-:

eew! backwards smily!

>>>>>"LOL! Actually, I didn't mean it that way, but it does kind of look like that, since the first sentence I started out with was "He's from Canada." :)"

Obviously you didn't see that. They wanted to know where he was from.
("However, if he isn't foreign... Oh jeeeeeze" -- he didn't know if he was foreign or not)
I said from Canada. I didn't mean that was an explanation for his poor spelling.

OKAY? Good. Geez people, I don't get offended when people knock America. I laugh. LOL

are you saying that in detroit, /a/ person dies every day? and in canada, there are days when nobody dies?

I think he means in Detroit almost every day a person is murdered.
Watch "Bowling for Columbine" by Michael Moore to hear some more things about the US you never wanted to know...

do you think the US is better than canada?

yes

well, perhaps he has learnt it phonetically. I find this whole thread rather insulting, although I suppose good grammar is a nice touch for one's readers.

I've only seen that in the USAMTS...maybe I'm just not involved in any contests? yep...that's it... :)

I noticed it also in the PAML and I think, in the AMC. Maybe knowing all these different ways to get 2004 will come in handy later on. LOL

int(638*Pi) or round(2003-(2^3*3^2*5^2*Pi^2),0) or 11.24674080877^Pi or...ok, I'll stop now...

i dont' quite follow the second one.

11 point whatever to the power of Pi... :/

Enter the problem into your calc?

yes....all of these return 2004 on a calculator, unless you don't have the "round" function or the "int" function

1988+16

The sad thing is... there are an infinite number of addition problems we could use here to get 2004 with x+y=2004. y=2004-x. This could go forever ;-)

I think what he means is, he was born in 1988, and he's 16 years old.

You know what... I never thought of that. In that case... 1988+15 for me. But that is 2003. Well, it will work when my birthday comes around.

You were born the year Bon Jovi released their album New Jersey!!!! :-O
1989+14 here (I know, it doesn't quite work...).

LOL... should I feel special? ;-)

If you were me, you would. :-)

1970+1073216131 seconds. :-)

Nice

don't forget %11111010100 and $7D4

Whoa! The voting poll bar option thingers got larger (height-wise)!