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wu :: forums    riddles    what happened (Moderators: Icarus, Eigenray, william wu, Grimbal, towr, ThudnBlunder, SMQ)    Lost will « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: Lost will  (Read 1429 times) cheesepuff Uberpuzzler     Posts: 694 Lost will   « on: Nov 11th, 2005, 6:32pm » Quote Modify a lawyer said in court: "My client had found a will stuck between page 157 and 158 of a book. The property is rightfully my client's." The will looked genuine, and all the information was right, but the client did not get any property at all. The will was classified as fake. Why? « Last Edit: Nov 15th, 2005, 7:28pm by cheesepuff » IP Logged errrrrrrrrrrr........ 24 Neelesh Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 147 Re: Lost will   « Reply #1 on: Nov 11th, 2005, 10:09pm » Quote Modify hidden: may be because 157 and 158 are the numbers of two sides of a same physical page. But still its not uncommon to "hide" a will between two sides of the same page   IP Logged cheesepuff18 Guest Re: Lost will   « Reply #2 on: Nov 12th, 2005, 6:57pm » Quote Modify Remove this is cheesepuff from another computer   yeah, your right. you can't hide anything between one sheet of paper IP Logged Mike_V Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 60 Re: Lost will   « Reply #3 on: Nov 12th, 2005, 9:52pm » Quote Modify What about a watermark? IP Logged Don't specify the unspecified. Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7527 Re: Lost will   « Reply #4 on: Nov 13th, 2005, 3:17am » Quote Modify What about a single-sided printout? IP Logged cheesepuff Uberpuzzler     Posts: 694 Re: Lost will   « Reply #5 on: Nov 14th, 2005, 6:38pm » Quote Modify its a will, not a watermark   and books usually are written with writing and page numbers given to both sides of a page IP Logged errrrrrrrrrrr........ 24 Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7527 Re: Lost will   « Reply #6 on: Nov 15th, 2005, 1:06am » Quote Modify It doesn't say it is a book.   Even then, if the deceased is a writer, it could be a manuscript written on a typewriter. IP Logged towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: Lost will   « Reply #7 on: Nov 15th, 2005, 2:33am » Quote Modify And even if they lied about where they found the will, or simply made a mistake, it's no ground for dismissing the will. IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB cheesepuff Uberpuzzler     Posts: 694 Re: Lost will   « Reply #8 on: Nov 15th, 2005, 7:27pm » Quote Modify why lie about where they found the will? and sorry, I didn't say it was a book, but it was IP Logged errrrrrrrrrrr........ 24 towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: Lost will   « Reply #9 on: Nov 16th, 2005, 2:04am » Quote Modify on Nov 15th, 2005, 7:27pm, cheesepuff wrote: why lie about where they found the will? and sorry, I didn't say it was a book, but it was If they are going to lie, why not make it a decent one?   It doesn't take much to confuse 156,157 with 157,158 Most people are bad with numbers anyway. IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7527 Re: Lost will   « Reply #10 on: Nov 16th, 2005, 10:01am » Quote Modify What if the book was not numbered in base 10?     IP Logged cheesepuff Uberpuzzler     Posts: 694 Re: Lost will   « Reply #11 on: Nov 16th, 2005, 6:25pm » Quote Modify on Nov 16th, 2005, 10:01am, Grimbal wrote: What if the book was not numbered in base 10?     could you find me a book not numbered in base 10?... IP Logged errrrrrrrrrrr........ 24 Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7527 Re: Lost will   « Reply #12 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 12:38am » Quote Modify Hm.... I only know of a case of a small computer newsletter that was numbered in binary. When they printed number 100, a school library asked for the missing numbers 12 to 99.   Anyway, can you think of a base where 157 and 158 are on different physical pages? IP Logged Neelesh Junior Member     Gender: Posts: 147 Re: Lost will   « Reply #13 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 12:57am » Quote Modify on Nov 17th, 2005, 12:38am, Grimbal wrote: can you think of a base where 157 and 158 are on different physical pages?   Interesting. (157)b = ( 7 + 5*b + b2 ) 10 and hence for all values of b, this number will be "odd".   So if we assume that pages of book are numbered starting with 1 on RHS page, then not possible   « Last Edit: Nov 17th, 2005, 1:00am by Neelesh » IP Logged towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: Lost will   « Reply #14 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 1:26am » Quote Modify Maybe if you don't use an integer base.. « Last Edit: Nov 17th, 2005, 1:26am by towr » IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB Grimbal wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 7527 Re: Lost will   « Reply #15 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 3:40am » Quote Modify Probably an alien book printed on fractal paper to save weight. IP Logged cheesepuff Uberpuzzler     Posts: 694 Re: Lost will   « Reply #16 on: Nov 17th, 2005, 7:06pm » Quote Modify on Nov 17th, 2005, 3:40am, Grimbal wrote: Probably an alien book printed on fractal paper to save weight.   Interesting agent Mulder IP Logged errrrrrrrrrrr........ 24 gigbox_69 Newbie     Gender: Posts: 31 Re: Lost will   « Reply #17 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 6:48pm » Quote Modify the pages 157 and 158 are on the same peice of paper just on different sides? IP Logged william11141 Newbie The God of the Heavens     Gender: Posts: 47 Re: Lost will   « Reply #18 on: Jan 6th, 2007, 8:07pm » Quote Modify  Unless you had an extremely thin kife witch made a thin cut, I don't see how its possibe to hide a will in a piece of paper, unless it was made that way, or the paper had a secert message.   IP Logged towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: Lost will   « Reply #19 on: Jan 7th, 2007, 9:13am » Quote Modify on Jan 6th, 2007, 8:07pm, william11141 wrote:  Unless you had an extremely thin knife wich made a thin cut, I don't see how its possibe to hide a will in a piece of paper, unless it was made that way, or the paper had a secret message. A watermark in the paper might work. Of course, that would still only be well-readable from one side. 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