Dryphuz

Dryphuz

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February 26 2015

Here's one that's always stuck with me. Its an intelligence question. Wisdom won't help you unless you know the answer already... At which point of course it will... "How far can you run into a forest?" And my favorite wisdom one, which i once answered on an aptitude test for the army (i didn't join in the end) by adding a fifth option to the 4 answers available... "What the square root of 9?" Answers tomorrow night if nobody comes up with the right ones before then.

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  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Would you mind if I added a couple of questions of my own Dryphuz? :-)

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    1. Take the scenic route and the answer can be anything you want. Don't do anything by halves! 2. False (for the grammar nazis).

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' Would you mind if I added a couple of questions of my own Dryphuz? :-) go right ahead. People can just indicate whose questions they are answering. Quoting 'SimonDoes' 1. Take the scenic route and the answer can be anything you want. Don't do anything by halves! 2. False (for the grammar nazis). Hahaha. Great answer to number one. You clearly know the answer, but you're not entirely giving it away. For number 2 allow me to respond in kind... Proper nouns take a capital letter (Nazis, not nazis)

  • Mischeviouslad

    Mischeviouslad

    10 years ago

    Q. How far can you run into a forest?A. Halfway....... tell me who or what is chasing me and I'll tell you how FAST I'm going too!(Run, Forrest....RUUUUUUN) Q. What (is) the square root of 9?A. Doesn't exist....... because 7 ate 9

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Half way. After that your running out if it - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    All the way which is more appropriate for this site than halfway, no one goes halfway and gets away with it. Have little interest in rooting #9 she has been well and truly rooted for years :)

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    This could be even more fun. . I wonder if anyone else will add questions to stump us. *hopes* . Mine's an oldie but a goody... . How many sides does a circle have?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Run into the forest: I'd say half way, though in my case about 30 meters before I fell down gasping for air. The square root of 9 is either 3 or -3, unless I'm missing something. ;-)

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Does infinity count as a number?

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    You all got the forest one and meander got the square root one... Well done... A circle has 2 sides, the inside and the outside... This was actually a spin off of Freys big brain thread and was an example of my contention that Wisdom is knowledge, what you know, and intelligence is how you think and completely independent of what you know.Tthe topic is debatable (which is what i love doing, logical debate is so satisfying even if i lose) and has been for almost as long as the terms have existed. Personally I've always gone with what dungeons and dragons taught me when i was a kid. Mages are intelligent, Clerics are wise...

  • JDM76

    JDM76

    10 years ago

    What can travel around the world while staying in a corner ?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    I like your vision, but no. ;-) . On the ball Dryphuz, that was too easy, lol. . There are more answers to the square root one though? And is someone interested in trying to explain how -3 is a square root of 9. I assumed 3 as the typical answer but can't imagine how the others work, and I am a curious kitten. . I do love lateral problem solving but I can't say I'm all that good at it. . What you know and how you think sound like 2 different things to me.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    However,I did think the first answer was half way...googled 'em both...now does that make me Intelligent or wise 😊xxFreya

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' is someone interested in trying to explain how -3 is a square root of 9. I assumed 3 as the typical answer but can't imagine how the others work, and I am a curious kitten. Both 3 x 3 and -3 x -3 equal 9. One of the few things I remember from my maths classes.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    What loses its head every morning, but gets it back at night?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'giant55' What can travel around the world while staying in a corner ? The waste bin that's inside an airplane toilet!

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Just one more: The more you take of me, the more you leave behind.

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' Just one more: The more you take of me, the more you leave behind. If I was so lucky. Could also be crumbs (if you were a cake), or Carbon Dioxide (if you were air), lots of possibilities here

  • JDM76

    JDM76

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' Quoting 'giant55' What can travel around the world while staying in a corner ? The waste bin that's inside an airplane toilet! that probably works as answer as well , very clever and witty , but my answer is a stamp

  • Mischeviouslad

    Mischeviouslad

    10 years ago

    What's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    To say half way is fraught with problems of topology. If the forest boundary is a the shape of a convex polygon there is an absolute center point. It the boundary is a concave polygon the center may well be outside the forest boundary. If the forest in on a complex 3D surface such as the surface of the earth or is in part or all contain in a cave system. To find a solution would require a set of additional rules and will result in one or more answers. Depending on the rules there could be an infinite number of solutions but still a subset of all possible locations inside the forest So without knowledge of the forest shape and additional rules to define the problem a physical answer can not be provided. You could also consider Zeno's paradox. To reach the center of the forest you must first reach the half way point to the center. Then you must again reach the next half way point. At any time there will be an infinite set of half way points to cross before you reach the center. As infinity is boundless, without end, it is impossible to reach the center. Thus you could never run halfway just infinity close to halfway. There is also the possibility of the forest being so large that the speed of a human running is insufficient to catch up with the growing expanding edge. If forest covers the entire surface of a 3D object like the Earth then there is not center nor is there an outside. You could not run into such a forest at all. But "into" is subjective You can run into a forest as far as you want. Run into or out of is a matter of intent an entirely metaphysical problem. I can run into then stop just 10 meters short of the other end. Because my intent was to remain in the forest I was never running out. Or you could say "One step" is as far as you can run into a forest. Once in you can no longer enter.

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Freya79' However,I did think the first answer was half way...googled 'em both...now does that make me Intelligent or wise 😊xxFreya Not sure really... Probably both, wise enough to know that google is the oracle of all knowledge and intelligent enough to use an oracle rather than waste your time. Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' There are more answers to the square root one though? And is someone interested in trying to explain how -3 is a square root of 9. I assumed 3 as the typical answer but can't imagine how the others work, and I am a As meander indicated -3 x -3 = 9. The multiplication of 2 negative numbers is always a positive answer. A negative multiplied by a positive is always negative. As a result, normally the square root of a negative number is impossible, but there is such a thing in maths as imaginary numbers (yes there really is). The square root of 1 is 1, but the square root of -1 is the magical imaginary number called i (the italic is integral to its identification in mathematical nomenclature). So the square root of any negative number is the positive equivalent times by i. The square root of -9 for example is 3i. Nice bit of mathematical weird knowledge. No idea what goes around the world but stays in a corner, or what loses its head every morning and regains it at night, but 'the more you take of me the more you leave behind'... Could it possibly be time? The more time you take the more you leave in the past. Best guess...

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    "Note that any positive real number has two square roots, one positive and one negative. For example, the square roots of 9 are -3 and +3." . I do remember that 9 is a fun number that always adds up to itself when multiplied. And a whole pile of what most would consider boring. Maths is fun, lol. . I do kind of like numbers better then words. . They make more sense.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Dryphuz'Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' There are more answers to the square root one though? And is someone interested in trying to explain how -3 is a square root of 9. I assumed 3 as the typical answer but can't imagine how the others work, and I am a As meander indicated -3 x -3 = 9. The multiplication of 2 negative numbers is always a positive answer. A negative multiplied by a positive is always negative. As a result, normally the square root of a negative number is impossible, but there is such a thing in maths as imaginary numbers (yes there really is). The square root of 1 is 1, but the square root of -1 is the magical imaginary number called i (the italic is integral to its identification in mathematical nomenclature). So the square root of any negative number is the positive equivalent times by i. The square root of -9 for example is 3i. Nice bit of mathematical weird knowledge. No idea what goes around the world but stays in a corner, or what loses its head every morning and regains it at night, but 'the more you take of me the more you leave behind'... Could it possibly be time? The more time you take the more you leave in the past. Best guess... I do remember learning that about negatives and positives, a long time ago, now that you remind me Dryphuz, lol. 2 positives makes a positive, 2 negatives makes a positive, a negative and a positve, never the twain shall meet. A bit like magnets but that's a whole new topic hehe. . The imaginary number, I do not remember. Oh, I've been googling and just came across the irrational number. That's what I remember. ;-) . I do like recurring numbers. If you get my .point. . I am enjoying your threads Dryphuz.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Yesterday I saw a small flock of swallows,first, I have seen all summer.I don't know what species they are, I think it depends on that. XxFreya

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Footsteps. Loving the other suggestions though!

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'giant55' What can travel around the world while staying in a corner ?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'giant55' What can travel around the world while staying in a corner ?

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Blindman67' If forest covers the entire surface of a 3D object like the Earth then there is not center nor is there an outside. You could not run into such a forest at all. Unless there's a path through the centre of the earth, remember circles, and by the transient property spheres, have both an inside and an outside. Ahhh Zenos paradox. I've always liked it even though it is so demonstrably false. I think its Zenos that also demonstrates there can be no such thing as the present. The present must be connected to both the past and the future and therefore must have a length and be divisible.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Yes, 3 x 3 and -3 x -3 both = 9. But the square root of 9 is always 3. If you want the negative version you ask for the negative root of 9. √9 = 3-√9 = -3 Saying that √9 = 3 or -3 is also saying that 3 = -3, which is obviously not correct. By convention, a square root is always positive. Rooting a square on the other hand, could go either way ;)

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    What side of a chicken has the least feathers? AND How many "Roadies" does it take to change a lightbulb?

  • JDM76

    JDM76

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' What loses its head every morning, but gets it back at night? could the answer be an alcoholic , they lose their heads in the morning when they sober up and regain them at night when they start drinking again .

  • JDM76

    JDM76

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' What loses its head every morning, but gets it back at night? A Pillow

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    In first year math at uni I had two of the sexyest math teachers. I am a mature student and by far the oldest in the room of around 40-50 students with an average age of 19. Using polynomials is part of calculus you need to solve for f(x) = ? In this thread we are considering the equivalent function f(x) = x*x-9 all simple stuff really. The solutions are call roots, this function has two roots where the value of the equation is 0 = x*x-9 So there I am in a class full to the rafters with teenagers, the biggest brained unbelievable sexy female math lecture is calmly and repeatedly talking about roots like just any other word. "How many roots do i get for this?","Are there any roots?", "I could have one, two or no roots!" I look around and nobody seems to be making any connection to the obvious and completely immature joke. I just wanted to put my hand up, "Oh oh oh... I have a root for you!". Being the oldest student by about 2 decades and maybe 10 years on the lecture, I felt like the most childish and immature kid in the room as I suppressed my idiotic grin and internal laughter every time the lecture asked for a root. WHAT is wrong with you people? why are you not giggling in repressed sexuality? am I really the ONLY child in this theater? Am I the only one that would love to give the teacher as many roots as I can... Love big brained math teachers, shame they dont love mature aged swingers like me...

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'DeepThought' What side of a chicken has the least feathers? The side that got clipped by a truck while it was trying to cross the road?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'DeepThought' What side of a chicken has the least feathers?They have the least feathers on the inside?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Lucky I wasn't in the class with you! . How would I hold back when we hit, NEGATIVE roots? Wondering if they were secretly members of RHP...

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'DeepThought' How many "Roadies" does it take to change a lightbulb? Wondering if we're talking recycling???

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Mischeviouslad' What's the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    In a hotel with infinite number of rooms and an infinite number of guess thus making the hotel full is it possible to add a new guest. Consider the number 1 and the number 0.999... (epsilon represent a recurring digit 9) What is the difference between these two numbers. It is generally accepted that the universe is infinite in size, with this in mind, how many 100% perfect copies of you are there?

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' Quoting 'DeepThought' What side of a chicken has the least feathers? The side that got clipped by a truck while it was trying to cross the road? was the chicken trying to cross the road

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Single_Guy4U' Quoting 'Meander' Quoting 'DeepThought' What side of a chicken has the least feathers? The side that got clipped by a truck while it was trying to cross the road? Why was the chicken trying to cross the road It was trying to get its inside out ???

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'SimonDoes' Yes, 3 x 3 and -3 x -3 both = 9. But the square root of 9 is always 3. If you want the negative version you ask for the negative root of 9. √9 = 3-√9 = -3 Saying that √9 = 3 or -3 is also saying that 3 = -3, which is obviously not correct. By convention, a square root is always positive. I did not know this actually... i spent a good bit time of time reading about the principal root (nudge, nudge, wink, wink Blindman). I guess my question should have read xsquared = 9, solve for x. that way i wouldn't have tipped my hand and since i'm not asking for the square root (at least not directly), both the principal and the negative square root of 9 has to be given to correctly solve for x. Also, from what I've read, its not completely wrong. Its just more often used as the principal only rather than both, but can still be used to mean both the principal and the negative in less strict nomenclature. Blindman, if i had been there i would have lost it and had to excuse myself from the lecture.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' Quoting 'DeepThought' How many "Roadies" does it take to change a lightbulb? Wondering if we're talking recycling???

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Mrs Peachy Pearl you were correct about the chicken feathers. The "roadies" I refer to lug equipment for bands.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    A tree falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it,does it make a sound? 🐸🐛🐝🐞🐌xxFreya

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Blindman: European or African? PeachyPearl: I have had (unfortunately) the odd negative root in the past but I must admit that I was drunk at the time.

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Freya79' A tree falls in a forest and there is nobody there to hear it,does it make a sound? 🐸🐛🐝🐞🐌xxFreya The same as if someone dies with no one around. They still die, and their family still find out later they are dead.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Is that an African or a European swallow??

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    ? 4 u How many types of turds are there? - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'DeepThought' How many "Roadies" does it take to change a lightbulb? Trick question. Roadies don't change lights, that job belongs to the light technicians.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    has any 1 got an answer to my ????? - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    run Forrest run 😘 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    I have got *shit* for an answer!

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Says seven xxFreya

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Slippery snake always makes me giggle. The things we learn in child birth classes in the last decade. (no not me :-P) . The grammar err is deliberate in the 2nd question Dryphuz? . And you said there were 4-5 answers? Have I missed something?

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' Slippery snake always makes me giggle. The things we learn in child birth classes in the last decade. (no not me :-P) . The grammar err is deliberate in the 2nd question Dryphuz? . And you said there were 4-5 answers? Have I missed something? Nah was a multiple choice. One right answer among three wrong ones. I wrote a fifth beside them. as Simon pointed out myself and meander were not completely right. as it turns out there's the square root (also called the principal square root) and then there's the other one referred to mostly as the negative square root.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    one school of thought says its the vibrations that ear reacts to,that is the sound...it's not a sound unless someone or something hears it..another school of thought says,does the tree or the forest exist?...unless we perceive it how do we know it exists and then.does it really exist or is it just our perception.xxFreya

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Dryphuz' Quoting 'MrsPeachyPearL' Slippery snake always makes me giggle. The things we learn in child birth classes in the last decade. (no not me :-P) . The grammar err is deliberate in the 2nd question Dryphuz? . And you said there were 4-5 answers? Have I missed something? Nah was a multiple choice. One right answer among three wrong ones. I wrote a fifth beside them. as Simon pointed out myself and meander were not completely right. as it turns out there's the square root (also called the principal square root) and then there's the other one referred to mostly as the negative square root. Thanks for explaining that.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Obi1Kenietzsche' Blindman: European or African? PeachyPearl: I have had (unfortunately) the odd negative root in the past but I must admit that I was drunk at the time.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'wehost' ? 4 u How many types of turds are there? - Posted from rhpmobile Quoting 'wehost' has any 1 got an answer to my ????? - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    What is long and hard and has cum in it?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    What does every woman have that starts with a “V” and she can use to get whatever she wants?

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    What did my ex have in his trousers that I was happy to blow?

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' What did my ex have in his trousers that I was happy to blow? His credit card

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' What does every woman have that starts with a “V” and she can use to get whatever she wants? Visa

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' What is long and hard and has cum in it? Cucumber?

  • ElleWould

    ElleWould

    10 years ago

    Meander... A submarine?

  • ElleWould

    ElleWould

    10 years ago

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    The other two are not.

  • tipper930

    tipper930

    10 years ago

    Just one more: The more you take of me, the more you leave behind. I thought about this for ages, all I keep coming up with is wet patch.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    There's a huge cyclone coming to town so you pack your car and leave. On the way out of town you pass a bus stop. At the bus stop in your sick nana - she needs to get to a hospital. The other person is you best friend who saved your life. And the third person is the love of your life. You've only got one seat in the car. Who do you take? - Posted from rhpmobile

  • JDM76

    JDM76

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'Meander' What does every woman have that starts with a “V” and she can use to get whatever she wants? Would the answer be her voice , or vocal chords ?

  • Single_Guy4U

    Single_Guy4U

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'SamanthaLeon' There's a huge cyclone coming to town so you pack your car and leave. On the way out of town you pass a bus stop. At the bus stop in your sick nana - she needs to get to a hospital. The other person is you best friend who saved your life. And the third person is the love of your life. You've only got one seat in the car. Who do you take? - Posted from rhpmobile Give the car to my best friend to take Nana to the Hospital, I stay behind and F..Ck the love of my life (or I could let my best friend drive Nana to the Hospital and (if there is enough room), snuggle up in the boot with the women (only cause it wouldn't be right to put Nana in the boot, and wouldn't trust the best friend in the boot with the girl), assuming that is Nana couldn't sit on the best friends lap and the girl on mine Lucky for me though my best friend (that he is) is a Doctor and offers to stay behind and help Nana and I can drive of with the girl HaHa

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Nana goes in the front seat,and you cram everyone in the back...could be kinda cozy...all in together this stormy weather xxFreya