Any Math trivia out there? I need help please.... or you could give the latest updates.?

Question

It's this thing we do on our math class. We get picked for eiither Math trivia, updates or tricks. I usually get picked for tricks (it's graded okay) but his time, tables turn and I get picked for math trivia. There is nothing available in the Net. My preceeding classmates already reported on most of the stuff in the Net. (joseph lagrange, rene descarte, the greatest twin prime, pi, the first person who did this and that, tesseracts yopu name it.) Especially the common ones are taken.... you know who the common mathematicians are. Just please give your part I'll judge if it's taken or not. Thank you.

Hey tomkat, your answer was cool but I guess that's considered as a trick not trivia :(.

Answer 1

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

This is pretty neat.

DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute.
Work this out as you read...
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, its fun.

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

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1757. If you
haven't, add 1756.

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!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2007) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS

Answer 2

The anecdote below about G.H. Hardy, Srinivasan Ramanujan, and the taxicab number 1729 is quite well known in the U.K. but perhaps less in your country.