YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH
This is pretty neat. In lo ti ve chhin tawh em? Mak ve reuh mai mai. Got my age right, got the first number I picked wrong though..
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, it’s fun.
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to
have chocolate
(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 — I’ll wait while you get the calculator
5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756 …..
If you haven’t, add 1755.
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 have chocolate each week?)
And…
The next two numbers are
YOUR AGE!
(Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2006) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE
IT LASTS.
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November 15th, 2006 at 10:53 am
No 5 ah khian 1 belh ve ve ila nakumah pawh hman leh theih ang.
November 15th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Van man reuh
November 15th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Kei chu dik ve thei tlat lo pek e…
November 15th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
calculator hmang rawh hehe. no offence
November 15th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
Yes… I am a MAN. aint that obvious?
November 15th, 2006 at 1:54 pm
Earghhhhh this is my age? Noooooooooooooooo
*hyuk hyuk*
November 15th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
It all fell apart for my grandma, who’s a 100 years old (born in 1906). Try it…
November 15th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Maybe it’s becoz she doesn’t eat chocolates anymore
November 15th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Lol. No, the formula doesn’t work for persons aged less than 10 or more than 99. That is, the person’s age must be a 2-digit number.
November 15th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Hahahaa…dik ve la tlat mai a
November 15th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
a dik lo ti dawn ila, a dik bawk sia..a dik ti dawn ila, a diklo si lova….lolz;
November 15th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
So assuming your grandma wants to have chocolates 7 times a week, and also assuming she’s already had her birthday this year, she’s not been conceived yet per our friendly neighborhood Hershey age-guesser
November 15th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Ok, I just can’t resist anymore. Let’s demystify the formula, shall we? Obviously, the formula works only if your age is between 10 and 99, so we’ll stick with that assumption. Now back to High School math
Let:
a = your age
n = the number of chocolates per week you want, with n between 1 and 9, inclusive.
Y = current year (2006, for example).
y = the year you were born.
k = “correction factor”: 0 if you’ve had your Bday this year, 1 otherwise.
Notice that 2006 – 1756 = 250. Also note that after steps 3 and 4, you will be multiplying 5 by 50, which is 250. Convenient, eh?
So let’s put steps 1 to 6 as an expression. It says:
a = (2*n + 5)*50 + (Y – 250 – k) – y
= 100*n + 250 + Y – 250 – k – y
= 100*n + Y – y – k
Notice that Y – y – k is simply your age (e.g., if your DOB is June 1980, 2006 – 1980 = 26, or if your DOB is Dec 1980, 2006 – 1980 – 1 = 25).
So, all that ritual of picking the number of chocolates, magically multiplying it by 2 then adding 5, then multiplying by 50, etc., was only to form a 3-digit number where the first digit is the number you chose in step 1 (multiplied, in effect, by 1 – how ingenuous!), and the second is your age, obtained (obviously!) by subtracting your YOB from the current year, then correcting it if you haven’t had your Bday this year (C’mon, even my grandma knows how to do that
Also notice that there’s nothing special about 1756 (or 1755) – that number depends upon which numbers you chose in steps 2, 3 and 4.
There you go – hope everyone’s wiser now
November 15th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
Nothing must be a mystery for u mathematical geniuses. V impressive. Whatever u explained above is still greek to me tho.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:04 pm
Ni mai mai e mole. As I said just add 1 to 1756 (or 1755) and the formula should be applicable again next year
And no I’m not a mathematician… just being logical.
November 15th, 2006 at 7:16 pm
impressed!!! van mak em em
November 16th, 2006 at 12:19 am
maimawm van ril ve a! keini ang thlum ngeihlo tan chuan dik leh dikloh hriat harsa dawn nih hi!! eee sunday chuan i va hmu ta em lei tur chu? nge lo siam tha dim diam toh a,amahin a in play thei toh zok lolz..
November 16th, 2006 at 11:04 am
Dawr an lo khar vek a, hei Madhapur ah a awm an tia, vawiin ah hian lunch break ah siam tir turin ka keng a office ah, ka bula hia ding burrr mai. Vai hoin min ngaisang ras
November 16th, 2006 at 11:05 am
3x !!!!!! ***Speechless***
November 16th, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Ka va lo upa tawh ve.. ka KUM ka va hmuh tak chu…
November 17th, 2006 at 12:27 am
hehe…that chu,nia sunday chuan an lo khar thin niang Pu Samua khan a sawi tlat hmanni ah…i han play vel lo mi awfis ah chuan!!
November 17th, 2006 at 7:21 pm
ka hman meuh pon a dik chuang tlat lo.. hahaha
November 17th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
an sawi ‘mathe’ ngei mai kha, i thiam lo ve hle mai maw… hahaha
November 22nd, 2006 at 2:45 pm
3x,
soi fiah thiam hle mai…ka bo map…
it was so simpler and sweeter with the chocolate involved….and everything
November 22nd, 2006 at 3:30 pm
Hats off 3X!
November 24th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
nia an sawi “mathe” kha ka lo thiamlo maw ni le… mahse thiamlo ho tak tak chu fail thin ka chu niah ….class XII bord examah poh khan father_sphinx, thiam tak tak ho chauh kha nih kha fail mathe ah chuan… mahse thiamlo ho khan chuan.. fail nachang poh kan hre lo…lol
October 30th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
it works out on me too although it says it’ll only work on 2006 …