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yes, I'm still don't get the riddle by taliesin though.
It is an interesting answer you and Pen made together, but it isn't the one we were told.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
The time of the echo really shortened.
And, as we have told before, if we had done the experiment, the line in the graph would have continued falling.
Please tell us or shoot us, Tal. We seem to be missing our shot, and in a duel, I believe that makes it your turn. "Ah, young Taliesin! I bare my chest and await your pleasure. You may fire when ready!" :)
Is it the distance where the scientist was standing? Does it have to do something with the sound quality?
Plz, tell us Tal.
Madhuri, I’m sorry, but I just can’t comprehend
Why four equal cuts do not bring puzzle to an end. :confused:
Well, it is like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by RobinHood3000
Vertically - cut the cake like a cross, which will make it into 4 equal parts
Horizontally - Cut the cake into half, using only one cut
this will result in 4 parts above the horizontal cut and 4 below, hence the 8 equal pieces.
This is what Aimus replied. It was correct. :)
I do not think, three full diameter cuts will be equally spaced.
Three will not, I believe I "misspake,"
But four, will they not make eight pieces of cake?
What is the manner in which you are cutting, if four?
Is there any other way to get 8 equal pieces, I would like to know. :)
Edit: I think, four horizontal cuts and one vertical cut will also result in 8 equal pieces. What do you think?
Four cuts equal round, like the spokes of a wheel,
Perhaps the puzzle was to use but three cuts, I feel.
Yes, that is it robin, I was familiar with the question. :) 4 cuts would do just the same, and is probably more fair too, since everyone would get a similar piece of cake. instead of a top or bottom half. :D
Hmmm...as you wish. We ourselves were also beaten in that duel before, and seem to be alive, so no worries.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
Although, rain these days keep spoiling the gunpowder, but...anyway...
The answer is: the hair.
The scientist didn't understand why it was so until one of his students asked him: "How often do you visit the hairdresser?" :p
It turned out that the scientist visited the hairdresser exactly every 14 days. So - the hair slowly became longer which shortened the time of the echo - and when he had his hair cut short, then the time of course lengthened rapidly.
We visited the hairdresser about a year so when we had done the test, the graph would have continued to fall.
And that's all, folks.
Now this seems to be a new puzzle to me.
I did not understand the relation between the length of hair and the echo time.
Oh, I see. The longer his hair was, the more it muffled the sound coming to his ears, the shorter the echo seemed to be.
So, that's what it is, we have been thinking of what not, sound waves, sound properties, and anything and everything, and it comes down to this. :rolleyes:
All complex problems have simple answers, I guess.
Ah, yes, can't see the forest for the trees! Since I do not go to a barber, my wife cuts my hair, and it's never over my ears, I never thought of it. Touche, Tal, your win, I think. As I loose, someone else can come up with another puzzle. :)
Right. Then I will come up with another puzzle! :D
I have always existed
Though some cannot conceive that
And in some languages
I have not even a name
Long have men scoffed
And argued about my reality,
Nix. Naught. Nothing.
Yet still I remain.
For I am the one certainty
In this mad universe
Totally unchanged because
No matter what they may throw at me
I shall always remain whole
My destiny decided
Try as hard as you will
But I cannot be divided.
Who or what am I? :confused:
I was going to say God, oh heck ILL stick with it God??
or maybe death? gravity is another one that comes to mind
You are the number zero, mon ami.
That's a tough one. A plant?
Great catch, Joe! Have a cuppa! http://www.invision.smileyville.net/...s/fnd (24).gif Although zero has always been around, (i.e., you could always possess nothing.), it has been misunderstood. Indeed, many cultures have no concept of the number zero, and no name for it. Nix, Naught, and Nothing are just other names for zero. It has been argued mathematically that zero is not really a number. And of course, although you may multiply by zero, you may not divide by it. :smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by cuppajoe_9
Here's one:
I have a heart that never beats,
I have a home but I never sleep.
I can take a mans house and build anothers,
And I love to play games with my many brothers.
I am a king among fools.
Who am I?
King of Hearts in a standard deck.Quote:
Originally Posted by toni
Oh, Mr. Pen, you're good! But now that I think about it, that one mustv'e been easy for you..:lol:
An interesting one. One hint. Somewhere in all the rigmarole, the name is actually there. :lol:
Although my number is zero
I am of The Upper Echelon
Where I wander among the others.
See, here I drink from a cup,
As I lean upon a borrowed rod,
Go fleeing from a drawn sword.
My pay is never more than ten coins.
I dare not speak at all
For to do so would reveal me for what I am
But If I remain voiceless and silent
Men count me among the wise.
Do you know you I am,
Or have I fooled you like the rest?
We are thinking that this passage might be important.Quote:
Or have I fooled you like the rest?
Ten coins. Swords. Cups. Rod. Upper Eschelon.
" Were are here, Fitz, you and I, to change the future of the world"
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The Fool
"Tarot" sticks in my mind, but it doesn't seem right...
,Yes, indeed, that was the line that gave the name! And Robin, Tarot is correct as well, since Zero is the Fool's number on his card. There is an upper eschelon, as I put it ( major arcana), numbered 0 to 21, then four suites (minor arcana) Swords, Cups, Rods, and either Coins, Disks, or Pentacles numbered ace to ten with four face cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taliesin
I messed with a lot of things in my wild youth! :lol:
Four or thirteen—
Which is my number?
Or since things are never what they seem,
Are they just to make you stumble?
There is no country where I am not known;
No tongue that does not name me.
Some fear me, and their terrors grow—
Others worship me intently.
Do not let shadows daunt and blind you—
Recall the path made by Jack the Ripper’s blade—
Reality leads on to its proper conclusion—
That past history records the dire deeds—
Which following said trail, you have found a name.
If the rhyme doesn’t give you the clue you need, follow the directions given in the five lines. Read correctly according to clue, the name is revealed.
Blade???....
Murder??
Not quite. Read more closely. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
How about the grim reaper?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pendragon
It may have to do something with unlucky numbers.....
as 4 = 3+1 and 13 (unlucky number) = 3+1 = 4
I know I am wrong, its just a wild guess.....
is it perhaps unlucky?
Considering 4 is unlucky in the east, resembling death, and 13 being the general unlucky number in western society.
Oh I never heard that. Why does 4 represent death in the east?Quote:
Originally Posted by AimusSage
It does not represent death, it just sounds similar when pronounced. (Four) sounds like death in Chinese, Japonese and I think Korean too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Close, but no cigar as I'm looking for a name everyone would know if the word were translated. I mean, try this slant: I don't think a Russian has a name of something that its literal translation is "The Grim Reaper." However, they do have a name for something that literally translates as the name I have in mind. The name can be read, if you can follow the clues. I give my word that it is there! :nod: All about directions, people have the hardest time following them, you know? :rolleyes: Did another clue go by? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
And if we are not mistaken, 13 is Deaths number in Tarot.Quote:
Originally Posted by AimusSage
And Aimus acidentially takes home the prize! http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/sportlich/a040.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by AimusSage
4 was the horse ridden by Death in the Book of Revelations.
13 is the number of Death in a Tarot deck. (Good catch, Tal!)
Death is known everywhere, and all languages have a name for death.
Some fear Death, some worship, say Kali, Goddess of Death.
As to the five lines, Jack the Ripper cut throats on a slant, left to right.
From the d on top going on a slant left to right you pick up e, a, t, and h. Thus:
Do not let shadows daunt and blind you—
Recall the path made by Jack the Ripper’s blade—
Reality leads on to its proper conclusion—
That past history records the dire deeds—
Which following said trail, you have found a name
Simple, really. You should go with that gut-feeling, Aimus! :D
Always love Pen's brain teasers!! :thumbs_up