Guest Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 i should warn you this is a very evil puzzle. if you solve this you are officially a genius. 11 ? 3 = 2 17 ? 13 = 10 13 ? 17 = 10 <-- yes it's transitive. 23 ? 29 = 29 37 ? 29 = 25 59 ? 47 = 65 I'll post a hint next week if no one gets it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 araver Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) I don't want to sound like a troll, and I don't claim to have any copyright or something, but could you not have entitled it differently than Or added a number to it, so that titles don't coincide? a ? b = b ? a denotes commutativity. Transitive relations (not operations) are a different thing, see here. Edited January 21, 2011 by araver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 1 and 4 are modulus or remainder. 11 Mod 3 = 2 and 23 Mod 29 = 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 jarze, can you explain more? i don't think you're on the right track, but if it gets you the right answer for all of them, then there may be a second solution. what would be 127 ? 97 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Hey! We had great fun trying to solve this today, but, sadly, nothing came of it, and it looks like we'll need to wait out for the hint! We have a question though, is the mystery thing literally an operation, such as ">" or "<" or "-" or is it a multitude of operands, such as "*100+10-9" Thanks, Kris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 (edited) okay here's hint #1 it had nothing to do with multiplication, addition, subtraction, or division. its more like binary xor. except its not binary, nor is it xor. Edited January 27, 2011 by phillip1882 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 I thought I got it, but then I realized I didn't. So I converted into a instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hmm, still trying to work towards this one, mind telling us what 1?0 would be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 1 ? 0 = 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Still nothing, any more hints? I seem to be lead/drawn towards base 9. Oh, and all of the numbers you give us before the operation are primes, and all the results are the sum of 2 square numbers. Hmmm. Kris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 araver Posted February 3, 2011 Report Share Posted February 3, 2011 what would be 127 ? 97 127 ? 97 = 205 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted February 10, 2011 Report Share Posted February 10, 2011 No reply? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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i should warn you this is a very evil puzzle. if you solve this you are officially a genius.
11 ? 3 = 2
17 ? 13 = 10
13 ? 17 = 10 <-- yes it's transitive.
23 ? 29 = 29
37 ? 29 = 25
59 ? 47 = 65
I'll post a hint next week if no one gets it.
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