Friday Riddle
RIDDLE: What is the largest possible number you can write using only 2 numbers - just 2 numbers, no other mathematical symbols?
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Riddle
I've have never gotten any of these riddles right - heck when someone tells me a joke, I can't figure that out either LOL.
Kim0 -
Ya Know...Annabelle41415 said:Riddle
I've have never gotten any of these riddles right - heck when someone tells me a joke, I can't figure that out either LOL.
Kim
I'm the same way Kim, I forget the jokes that are told to me right away usually, I'm terrible LOL
Hugsss!
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Good thinking, Phil...that'sShayenne said:Ya Know...
I'm the same way Kim, I forget the jokes that are told to me right away usually, I'm terrible LOL
Hugsss!
~Donna
Good thinking, Phil...that's got to be it.0 -
Uhmm...PhillieG said:A wild guess
99
I hate to be a spoil-sport, but a mathematical notation isn't normally
considered a "number".
Two numbers would be two numbers, not a number and a notation.
So that "99" that someone had mentioned, actually would be
"two numbers", and the winner of the weekly grand prize.
Ehh, what?0 -
digitsJohn23 said:Uhmm...
I hate to be a spoil-sport, but a mathematical notation isn't normally
considered a "number".
Two numbers would be two numbers, not a number and a notation.
So that "99" that someone had mentioned, actually would be
"two numbers", and the winner of the weekly grand prize.
Ehh, what?
You mean that superscripting, standing for exponentiation, is a mathematical notation? Or that "99", though made from two digits, is one number, not two, so that from the two numbers "99" and "9", we could form 999, which is even larger than 99?
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Interesting, but I stillJohn23 said:Uhmm...
I hate to be a spoil-sport, but a mathematical notation isn't normally
considered a "number".
Two numbers would be two numbers, not a number and a notation.
So that "99" that someone had mentioned, actually would be
"two numbers", and the winner of the weekly grand prize.
Ehh, what?
Interesting, but I still think Phil is right. She asked how to WRITE a number using two numbers....9^9 is just another way of writing 387420489.
So, this is my first riddle...when do we get to know the answer?0 -
Quiet PleaseJohn23 said:Uhmm...
I hate to be a spoil-sport, but a mathematical notation isn't normally
considered a "number".
Two numbers would be two numbers, not a number and a notation.
So that "99" that someone had mentioned, actually would be
"two numbers", and the winner of the weekly grand prize.
Ehh, what?
You guys are starting to sound like ME for crying out loud!
It called for "just two numbers". Both numbers are the number 9.
One BIG one, one little one.99
And part 2, the answer, is on Monday
(or you can look it up which I did AFTER I wrote my answer)
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Nudgie, I'm Sooooo glad you're back! this is a tough crowd here!
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LOLPGLGreg said:digits
You mean that superscripting, standing for exponentiation, is a mathematical notation? Or that "99", though made from two digits, is one number, not two, so that from the two numbers "99" and "9", we could form 999, which is even larger than 99?
--Greg
Imagine us on a jury...We'd never reach a conclusion.
There are many hair splitting technicalities as far as this (and many other) riddles go. Probably any riddle has a loop hope.
I just meant the both of the digits I put down are considered numbers. The way I arranged them and the size I gave them give them a high value.
That's how I see it in my own little world here in NY Sate where it's 20 degree out, in the sun, with no wind....
Maybe I have brain freeze?0 -
but isn't 9 to the ninth using the SAME number,PhillieG said:Kathie
That's why it's a riddle. I thought that too, then I thought "hey! wait a minute, why not 9 to the 9th power?" It used 2 numbers and it expresses a larger number.
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the number 9? so maybe answer is 9 to the 8th or 8 to the 9th, whichever is higher?Just as cold in Brooklyn as it is upstate, I think....steve0
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