Sun May 15, 2005 11:13 pm
How many other people here just used a calculator for this? *shuns pencil and paper method, and pencils in general. pens are ok, though*
A note to other people who have you use their computer's calculator ( since mine didn't seem to have a square root function ), x ^ .5 is the square root of x and x ^ ( 1 / 3 ) is the cube root.
A note to other people who have you use their computer's calculator ( since mine didn't seem to have a square root function ), x ^ .5 is the square root of x and x ^ ( 1 / 3 ) is the cube root.
Mon May 16, 2005 8:07 pm
_B4U_ wrote:Kazaran wrote:Fun and not as easy as the previous ones. Took me a quick Java program to solve.
I think us programmers are going to have this one all to ourselves, unless some moron goes and posts the answer.
There is. But it's in some forum not on the Neopets site. .___.
Mon May 16, 2005 9:52 pm
And actually, while I could have written a program to solve this one, I sort of did it by trial and error. You can do it pretty quickly, too, that way. At least, if you know some properties of squares and cubes. (Or maybe not even; the pattern I took was intuitive.)
Thing that I'm not sure about is this:
Thing that I'm not sure about is this:
Anyone who wrote a program let me know about the answer to that.BIG SPOILER HINT wrote:Can a perfect square be a perfect cube?
Mon May 16, 2005 10:01 pm
Yes, that is possible. Take 729, for example- it's 27^2, or 9^3. None of the statements are mutually exclusive (apart from the adds to 43 part with the wrong statement, of course).