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If 2+2=5 and 1+1=11 what's 2+1?

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silmarilen
yeah i realised after i made the post that 3/3=3 wasnt necessary to know the answer but i hadnt thought about them being there to rule out 0 yet.
Railey2
theoretically, you could still find a different solution by treating the operators as the part that changed, but that sort of fails Occam's Razor. Or you just redefine everything and create something crazy.

But yes, the way you solved it was the way it was meant to be solved.
silmarilen
occam's razor is love, occam's razor is life.
Railey2
now that I think of it, the lazy way would be to redefine + as "equal to ^, yielding 7 as a result when used between 2 arbitrary numbers"


then define / as always yielding 3, and * as equal to /


the result of 3+3 is 7.

But thats kinda cheating, is it not?


or you just define ? as always being an orange cube. The only challenge would be not creating a contradiction.
Bweh

Aurani wrote:

Brian OA wrote:

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Did you seriously take this seriously?
This is fun, why not
EneT

Brian OA wrote:

Aurani wrote:

Did you seriously take this seriously?
This is fun, why not
I was expecting you to reply "Did you literally take me literally?"
AutoMedic
Meth is boring
Trash Boat

AutoMedic wrote:

Meth is boring
I miss mathexpert

Inb4 incoming iPPe "i miss stranger" post
Lewder
i miss being drunk
HazeL
2+2=5 (maybe 2=2.5)
1+1=11(maybe 1=5.5) <i just divide them to 2

answer: 2.5 (2) + 5.5 (1)= 8
chaee

HazeL wrote:

2+2=5 (maybe 2=2.5)
1+1=11(maybe 1=5.5) <i just divide them to 2

answer: 2.5 (2) + 5.5 (1)= 8
I agree!
Railey2
again mixing 2 systems. Not how it works. You assume that the numbers on the left side are encoded while the one on the right side of the equation are not.
HazeL

Railey2 wrote:

again mixing 2 systems. Not how it works. You assume that the numbers on the left side are encoded while the one on the right side of the equation are not.
show your answer then
Railey2
but I already did. It's not solvable unless you mix 2 systems, which is not how its done. We miss the link between 2 and 1, in every case.

The 3 equations can be translated to

a + a = b
x + x = y
a + x = ?

theres no way. All your solutions rely on conveniently mixing systems up in one way or another, instead of actually attempting to solve for the variables within the given system.
chaee
Okay cool.
HazeL

Railey2 wrote:

but I already did. It's not solvable unless you mix 2 systems, which is not how its done. We miss the link between 2 and 1, in every case.

The 2 equations can be translated to

a + a = b
x + x = y
a + x = ?

theres no way. All your solutions rely on conveniently mixing systems up in one way or another, instead of actually attempting to solve for the variables within the given system.
oh sorry i didnt see your post and thanks chaee for agreeing :D
Dusalty
2+1=((1*5+1*5-2*11)/11)+1
HazeL
o_o
Sanxu_old
Numbers are just a social construct created to keep us down.
HazeL
im just telling the possibilities
assuming that 2 is value # and 1 as $
BleuVitriol
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Vialle
Asians shouldn't be in this thread
Flaus
the autism is intensifying
fat pear
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Trash Boat

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21 you're stupid
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fat pear

Trash Boat wrote:

[ microism ] wrote:

21 you're stupid
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You shouldn't be talking.
Trash Boat
You shouldn't exist
fat pear

Trash Boat wrote:

You shouldn't exist
Oh. Okay.
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69+420=1337 you pleb
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