{"id":120,"date":"2005-08-20T23:28:17","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/20\/a-math-trick\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T15:53:57","slug":"a-math-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/20\/a-math-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"A Math Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>1. Grab a calculator. (you won&#8217;t be able to do this one in your head)<br \/>\n2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number(NOT the area code)<br \/>\n3. Multiply by 80<br \/>\n4. Add 1<br \/>\n5. Multiply by 250<br \/>\n6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number<br \/>\n7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.<br \/>\n8. Subtract 250<br \/>\n9. Divide number by 2 <\/p>\n<p>Do you recognize the answer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t be able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/20\/a-math-trick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}