Extremely Hard Question

[Omnomnick]

How to ask question? : o

 

[Gemma]

You could ask something totally stupid and gemma like
Like 'What really hard question should i ask?' for your question or something gay like that
I always do
but that because i have no imagination or i dont really give a damn

 

[Rizzo]

And, the million dollar question:

what really hard question should i ask? you got 30 seconds...

 

[99.vikram]

1
11
21
1211
111221
What Comes Next

312211

 

[delusional]

What's next in this sequence?

6, 28, 496,

 

[Solaris]

let <a> be the recursive series defined by
a(1)=1;
a(2)=2;

and a=(a(n-1)+2)/(2a(n-2)));

Prove by strong induction that

1<=a<=2

for all natural numbers greater than or equal to 2.

Go!

Dammit, there was a time when I could do that when I did further maths at college.

Assumed true for n=k, show true for k=1, proved true for n=k+1, therefore true for all values equal of greater to one. lol.

 

[99.vikram]

^ To do that one, you need to know Summation(1/n-2), which I don't.

Can anyone help me out?

EDIT:

What's next in this sequence?
6, 28, 496,

Spoiler

8128 - it is the next perfect square.

- Where p is the index of the perfect number in the series and

Meh. Too technical to test someone's math skills, IMO.

 

[dfc05]

I watched this Kid's Jeopardy where the final category was something like "Animals" and the question was "Bambubar is the German term for what animal?"

Spoiler

Apparently the kids were supposed to notice that "bambu" sounds like "bamboo" and "bar" sounds like "bear," which gives you "panda bear." It was ridiculous.

 

[Emporius]

And yet I just guessed that

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

So I have KineticAesthetic's question for my million dollar question. I might take a few more from here and replace it with one's I have on my page. It should be done sometime next week up and running.

 

[Vegeta897]

That's kind of silly though. KA's question is clever because it's what you'd never expect, so it doesn't work with a multiple choice format. People will see 'room temperature' out of your list of choices of other random numbered temperatures, and they'll be like 'okay this is obvious'.

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

They also have to know what sublimate means. I put down room temperature, boiling temperature, 52 degrees Celcius, and 52 degreen Farenheit

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

If you took all the cocks in the world and morphed them into a mega-cock how many of my cocks would it take to equal the size of the mega-cock?

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

1, mine! Oh dang! lol

 

[Vegeta897]

Well it's obviously not boiling temperature. Whether or not you know what sublimate means, they know it's not the same as boiling. And if I were given the question I would know it's not one of the 52's, because if it WAS an actual given number like that, the rest of the made up choices would other random numbers.

Maybe I'm just better than average at reverse engineering multiple choice problems.

 

[Ennui]

Hard math problems are not interesting questions. I can't see why any of you would post them for fun.

Although if you can give me a good reason why you actually enjoy trying to work out difficult maths, I'll get my roommate to post a problem for you. He'll probably **** you over and post something you have no clue how to do though, he's taking almost all post-graduate level math courses in his second year of uni.

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

There couls be lots of people that doesn't know what it means. If YOU were given the question, you would know the answer 'cause you know what it means. I'm not arguing, I'm just saying.

 

[Vegeta897]

Read my post again. I actually do not remember what sublimate means. But I know it's not the same as boiling. And so would anyone. So it's obvious it wouldn't be boiling temperature.

 

[Seppo]

Although if you can give me a good reason why you actually enjoy trying to work out difficult maths, I'll get my roommate to post a problem for you. He'll probably **** you over and post something you have no clue how to do though, he's taking almost all post-graduate level math courses in his second year of uni.

Ooh I'm soooo scared oooh.

 

[Vegeta897]

LOL Seppo.

 

[delusional]

According to Pythagoras, which is the greatest of all numbers?

Where does the sun reside in this astrological age?

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

Well atleast you know part of what it means, you know it means not boiling. But others might not know what it means at all

 

[Vegeta897]

But think about it from the contestant's point of view. If it meant boiling, why would there be such an obvious answer like that in the choices.

Because if it did mean boiling, then it would be a ridiculously easy question for everyone who knew what sublimate meant, and ridiculously hard for anyone who didn't. And that just wouldn't be a good question.

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

So you're saying the answers are just too easy? Especially for a 1,000,000 dollar question?

 

[Vegeta897]

I'm saying it's way to easy too figure out if you simply put your mind to reverse engineering the question like I have demonstrated.

You should find a better question that isn't so messy. A straight forward 'man any 4 of those answers could be it'

 

[Disrupted_Hunter]

Then I can see how it's not the best question. I'll keep that question, but switch it with something else. Do you have a good question by any chance?

 

[Viperidae]

What do women want?

 

[Vegeta897]

In which hole do women want it?

 

[kineaesth]

Read my post again. I actually do not remember what sublimate means. But I know it's not the same as boiling. And so would anyone. So it's obvious it wouldn't be boiling temperature.

Solid -> Gas.

 

[The Monkey]

Ooooh, we had that riddle in math in the 8th grade. If you have a pen and paper you can easily figure it out if you get enough time.

Don't be a faggot.

 

[Dog--]

What the hell is that shit?

 

[kineaesth]

What do women want?

New kitchen appliances and maybe a night at the theatre every eight months.

 

[Vegeta897]

Chaucer needs to use spell-check, DAYUM.

 

[delusional]

These toaster's are pissing me off. I am not a happy vacuum.

 

[Dog--]

Guess you're a brave little toaster.

 

[mocho loco]

toasters>vacuum ??

 

[Viperidae]

The Wife o' Bath's Tale. Oh hells yes.
I am going to be her when I grow up.

I'll be your Jenkin, you can be my Alisoun.

Vegeta can be the Pardoner OLOL.

English lit jokes :<

 

[theotherguy]

^ To do that one, you need to know Summation(1/n-2), which I don't.

Can anyone help me out?

hint: you know the upper and lower bounds of Summation (1/n-2) if you use strong induction.

 

[Ennui]

Ooh I'm soooo scared oooh.

Don't worry about it, you aren't alone - most mortals tremble in my presence.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I'm drinking some nesquik and it says "ultra pasteurized" sweet.