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Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 9:44 pm
by Geoduck
Just finished the grid and nothing is popping out immediately.

I'll try to get to it tomorrow. Sadly, I may not get this one, since I have a lot on my plate tomorrow.

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:33 pm
by Bird Lives
As the old Chinese restaurant joke goes, disregard previous cookie. I'm on dry land at last, having extricated myself from the rabbit hole marked "Central Limit Theorem," though that would have been a great meta.

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sat Feb 29, 2020 11:20 pm
by sharkicicles
Bird Lives wrote: Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:33 pm As the old Chinese restaurant joke goes, disregard previous cookie. I'm on dry land at last, having extricated myself from the rabbit hole marked "Central Limit Theorem," though that would have been a great meta.
Or a great band name.

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:42 am
by Softie
I am lost at sea. I majored in math but this one has me stumped

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:12 am
by Geezer Weezer
Surf's up. I'm riding the wave in.

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:30 am
by grwinski
Well, it took three nights of 'sleep on it', but we finally got it. Finally ashore!!

Rita and George

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:47 am
by Dennis
Well, it is almost Sunday afternoon and I have been seeing something for two days without any progress to the next step. So, still aboard.

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:49 am
by Bob cruise director
Good Sunday morning muggles

Muggles are stumbling to the ship's bar and the shore bit by bit.

and we have our latest muggle = LaPetiteFlora. Maybe she can help MaineMarge with the ship's garden the weeks when she does not make it to shore. Either way we give a warm welcome to LaPetiteFlora

We have 11 muggles on the ship and 97 on the shore

New to the ship's bar are Janet P
jhcogan
Susan G
Softie
Geoduck

And making their way to shore (or in some cases they were there all along)
tim1217
IMOnToo
MajorDomoTom
DBMiller
DrTom
MaineMarge
LaPetiteFlora
Jud
Libbypibby
phofer
BirdLives
Bulls****
Rita and George

Good luck to all making it to shore and winning the mug

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:53 am
by grwinski
Tom Shea wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2020 10:28 pm At first I was thinking - you know - math is hard. Then my second cup of coffee gave me the idea to stop using Laplace Transforms.

On shore. Martini time, then the Hilton Hawaiian fireworks.
We abandoned Laplace as well, and thought about using Maxwell's equations, and finally completed with Boolean algebra!

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:55 am
by Jeanrosz
Feb 29 has passed .. Im glad... 2nd anniversary (8 yrs) Since lightning struck my house! Thank god we’re we’re 8 hours away on vacation.. I’d have been bacon! Neighbors emailed us that house was on fire..school bus driver called it in. 5 months to rebuild but glad to get out of hotel after that.. love this forum and the weekly contests!

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:19 pm
by Bird Lives
grwinski wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:53 am We abandoned Laplace as well, and thought about using Maxwell's equations, and finally completed with Boolean algebra!
Boolean algebra -- isn't thatwhat they teach at Yale?

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:38 pm
by Memay131
On shore, hoping for another Michigan (Midland this time!) muggle win

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:47 pm
by Inca
Just to add to the tally: D&D

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 12:54 pm
by Commodore
Pardon me, Isaac, for my tardiness. Was topside and caught up in a game they call "Shuffleboard". Fascinating.

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:02 pm
by NuYear68
Getting to know Isaac very well these last few days and see no way off of this ship yet. Enlisting my sixth grader for help.

-Paul

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:07 pm
by MajordomoTom
s/he has heard this word before, good call

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:10 pm
by MajordomoTom
Newton and Liebniz
aren't needed to solve this week's
math meta puzzle

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:13 pm
by NuYear68
Nice to have known ya, Issac, but my son and I have found the shore!

- Paul

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 1:59 pm
by diplomatt
I reached shore Friday night!

Re: "2+2=5" - February 28, 2020

Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:06 pm
by Tom Shea
I had the square root of -1 in my answer, but my wife told me to get real, so i abandoned that rabbit hole.