Mark Sawyer

@abakcus Looks gorgeous, but ridiculously expensive.

@nabisco @fortyphobic WHAT?!???!?? BRING THEM BACK! BRING THEM BACK! BRING THEM BACK! BRING THEM BACK!

@fortyphobic Unfortunately, they're no longer available.

@pickover Gary 10 and Joan 14 by solving 2 simultaneous equations with 2 variables, unless it's a definition trap because "lifelike" and neither of them own any "real" shrunken heads, and then 2 =-2 and -4=2 simultaneously which isn't any algebraic system I grok.

Mathematics. Shrunken heads puzzle. (Although some of you will say this is too "easy," what percentage of people on planet Earth could answer such a strange question? Does the problem even have a unique solution?) P.S. Many of these puzzles come from my various books.

@NickFromCyprus @pickover Right, how could the problem be visualized, intuited? That's what fascinates me about people with great mathematical minds/insights...how do they see/know what they do, even before they can express it logically or in an equation?

Mathematics. (Although some of you will say this is too "easy," what percentage of people on planet Earth could answer such a strange question?)

@dela3499 @pickover Nice.

@pickover Or more generally: When is the result of adding two numbers the same as multiplying them? When does A + B = A x B ? It's when the flat plane of Y = A + B intersects the saddle of Y = A x B. This forms a hyperbola:

@pickover -1! Ha ha! I laugh at the people who told me algebra would never have any real world usefulness, because here I am with a correct answer! (Simple, but still fun) (Useful is in the eye of the beholder...math gives me joy, so q.e.d.)

The answer is : A = ?

@KH2020H0 The square root of 5^32 is 5^16, the square root of which is 5^8, the square root of which is 5^4, the square root of which is 5^2, which is 25.

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