Your age in chocolate

[giant_robot]

This is a very cute little math trick. Give it a try!

YOUR AGE IN CHOCOLATE
Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway--but the Hershey Man will know!

It takes less than a minute. Work this out as you read ...

Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756 .... If you haven't, add 1755.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number (i.e, how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

[Random_Australian]

1. Well, well that was interesting. Perhaps I shouldn't have made the

initial number the lowest I could, as an average at 1.00005, although yes, I do realise the lowest is actually (lim h -> 0 | x = 1 + h)

[KitchenWitch]

4. argh, calculus!

[Random_Australian]

5. Grargh, linear algebra!

[Random_Australian]

6. Mrarrrrgh! Discrete methatics!

[Random_Australian]

7. GRarrrrrr! Affine Geometry!

:D :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Cool, it works!

:hi:

[MiniMandaRuth]

3. Oh my god... it got 14!

For reals!

[Deja Q]

8. Um, I do not want chocolate 4 times/week, nor am I 84 years old.

Now if I didn't want it at all, it'd be right...


Oops. :dunce: I didn't multiply - but who would be shocked over that little revelation?

[miss_american_pie]

9. And who thought it was a good idea

to ruin perfectly good chocolate with math? :grr:

[Deja Q]

10. At least it wasn't done like this:

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have delicious Hershy's brand chocolate (more than once but less than 10, even if you want more than 10 and I bet it's on sale at your local grocer's!)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756 .... If you haven't, add 1755.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number (i.e, how many times you want to have delicious Hershy's brand chocolate (more than once but less than 10, even if you want more than 10 and I bet it's on sale at your local grocer's!) each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

[miss_american_pie]

13. Don't be knocking Hershey's

they have a spa out there where you can take chocolate bubblebaths.

[Deja Q]

14. Nobody under 21 or anybody with an incontinence problem admitted, no doubt

:rofl:

Chocolate bubblebaths... you know, in 1943, chocolate was used as currency. Now people bathe in it... Let me guess as I'm a naive, innocent sort of person: The bathers lick themselves clean?

[miss_american_pie]

15. I don't know yet

I'm trying to arrange a road trip out there in July. Ask me then. ;)

[Mutley]

11. Worked for me.

:D

[Deja Q]

12. Well, how much chocolate did you want?

:9

[Mutley]

16. Seven times a week.

But I really want more than that. :D