A Math Trick

Posted on August 20, 2005 by Night Owl

Stephanie sent me this neat little miracle of math. I actually scooped up the calculator and was quite impressed with the outcome. I wonder who sits around and dreams these things up?

1. Grab a calculator. (you won’t be able to do this one in your head)
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number(NOT the area code)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2

Do you recognize the answer?

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4 Responses to A Math Trick

  1. Stephanie says:
    August 22, 2005 at 12:39 am

    Cool I made the Blog!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I am excited!!!!!!

    This is a cool one they are few and far between on the net…..

    YAY!!! I made the BLOG!!!!!

    Thanks Mike..

  2. Phyd says:
    August 27, 2005 at 9:37 pm

    Mike! How the heck does it work? That is very good.

  3. Night Owl says:
    August 28, 2005 at 9:56 am

    I have no clue Phyllis, some of it might acutally be explained because you are keying into the calculator parts of your phone number and the math you’re performing eventually takes the answer back to that form. How the process divined the Area Code is beyond me! Nifty little trick of numbers though!

  4. Juan Gonzalez says:
    April 20, 2006 at 1:34 am

    Senior~

    I no recognize answer! Pleace explain!

    Juan

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