Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs. Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio. Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer. Take the absolute value of this number and add up it's digits. Add up this number's digits. Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office during this year? A Nickelodeon show (that still is showing and is reasonably popular) contains an obvious reference to this presidents name If you know the show that I'm referring to in the hint you can have bonus points =P Edited October 23, 2008 by K4D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 .... Ack. All I got was Garfield, so that would mean James Garfield in 1881. No idea how to get to the number though, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) .... Ack. All I got was Garfield, so that would mean James Garfield in 1881. No idea how to get to the number though, lol. nope wrong show =) try working out the stuff after the first part as I think that is the hardest part, but maybe thats just me =P Edited October 23, 2008 by K4D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dms172 Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs.-1837 wigs is the party of canidates Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio.- i have absolutely no clue Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer.-27 Take the absolute value of this number and add up it's digits. Add up this number's digits. Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office during this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 from dms172 - Van Buren beat whigs 1837 Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio. Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer. N=27 golden ration is tied to the Fibonacci sequence (one of my favorites). 27th term = 196418 Subtract that from 1837, take the absolute value, add the numbers up. get 29 29 and 1837 = 1865 Lincoln was president at least until he decided to go to the ford theater.... Have no clue about the nickelodeon song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Gambit Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs. = 1837 Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio. Golden ratio = 1.61803399 Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer. = 27 Take the absolute value of this number and add up it's digits. = 27 Add up this number's digits. = 9 Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office during this year? = 1846 According to wiki the president at that time was Abraham Lincon. Is this right? edit: ok i made a mistake with my calcs... back to the drawing board Edited October 23, 2008 by Gambit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shakeepuddn Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Franklin Pierce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) I'm intending for it to be 1836 because that when the actual election ran for, but looks like you have all the parts right so far - or at least i've seen them all posted correctly by at least 1 person somehow you got the right date gambit even though you used wrong date... but Abe Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 And now to figure out what show the hint is talking about =) Edited October 23, 2008 by K4D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HoustonHokie Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs. = 1836 Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio. Fibonacci Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time (27.32166). To the nearest integer. = 27 Take the absolute value of this number (|1836-196418|=194582) and add up it's digits. = 1+9+4+5+8+2=29 Add up this number's digits. = 2+9=11 Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office during this year? = 1836+11=1847 The president at that time was James Polk (1845-49). Is the Nickelodeon reference to "Dora the Explorer" - maybe referring to the Manifest Destiny policies of Polk's era? or maybe to "Jimmy Neutron" who would at least share the same first name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 James K. Polk is the name of the middle school in "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide." Going off Hokie's last answer there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) Going off Hokie's last answer there.James K. Polk is the name of the middle school in "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide." Yeah you got the hint right but hokie for some reason we got different answers in the math; still wound up with same president but i did this: Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs. (1836) Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio. (Fibonaccis Sequence) Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer.(27) 1836-(27th term of fibonacci sequence)=1836-121393=-119557 Takes the absolute value of this number and add up it's digits. (28) Add up this number's digits. Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office durign this year? EDIT: oh nvm you used the next term in the series i was counting 0 as the first term lucky it comes out to the same thing I guess Edited October 23, 2008 by K4D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs. Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio. Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer. Take the absolute value of this number and add up it's digits. Add up this number's digits. Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office during this year? A Nickelodeon show (that still is showing and is reasonably popular) contains an obvious reference to this presidents name If you know the show that I'm referring to in the hint you can have bonus points =P a van (martin van buren) beat 3 wigs (whigs) in 1837 nth (30th) term of fibonacci sequence is 832040, subtracted from 1837 = -830203. sum of digits of absolute value is 16. sum of those digits is 7 president in 1844 was james polk. ------- polk high school is the setting for nickelodeon show "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 a van (martin van buren) beat 3 wigs (whigs) in 1837 nth (30th) term of fibonacci sequence is 832040, subtracted from 1837 = -830203. sum of digits of absolute value is 16. sum of those digits is 7 president in 1844 was james polk. ------- polk high school is the setting for nickelodeon show "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" hmm well apparantly the riddle works with just about any numbers you chose lol =P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted October 24, 2008 Report Share Posted October 24, 2008 Year van beat 3 wigs (whigs) -- 1836 nth term (n as 27) of fibonacci sequence - 196418 subtract from year (abs value) - 194528 add digits twice - 29, 11 year - 1847 president James K. Polk, namesake of the school in Ned's declassified School Survival Guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Take the year a Van beat 3 wigs.
Subtract the nth term of the famous sequence that closely resembles the golden ratio.
Where the nth term is the number of days it takes the Earth's largest satellite to revolve on it's axis one time. To the nearest integer.
Take the absolute value of this number and add up it's digits.
Add up this number's digits.
Take this number and add it to your first answer, which United States President was in office during this year?
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