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Eigenray
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Who put the bomb in the sink?
The attached diagram was the only thing to survive the explosion 
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #1 on: Mar 13th, 2008, 8:16pm » |
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Who are the prime suspects?
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #2 on: Mar 14th, 2008, 6:14am » |
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Is the triangle to scale, because it might have something to do with angles...
How deep is the answer ex. the name is in the triangle, or the 'second in aqua but reverse"
Does it use the advanced math stuff 9cos, tan, etc), or would that place it in the mediium.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #3 on: Mar 14th, 2008, 6:19am » |
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I suspect there is a formula relating the different lengths. That formula can then be read in a way to have a meaning in English. I haven't been able find that formula, because you can't put a picture in the Google search.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #4 on: Mar 14th, 2008, 6:23am » |
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i checked Google, there were only like 15 hits, 3 of them in another language, and the one here
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #5 on: Mar 14th, 2008, 6:39am » |
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Got it.
A man and his son.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #6 on: Mar 14th, 2008, 6:45am » |
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How? 
it sounds right for no apparent reason, but the logic really brings it together.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #7 on: Mar 14th, 2008, 2:06pm » |
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on Mar 14th, 2008, 6:39am, Grimbal wrote:
Yep!
As for the maths, you need nothing more advanced than Pythagoras. Hint: it looks like there once was an altitude drawn from the upper vertex, but it was eliminated. By the explosion. Or something.
The picture was obviously drawn by a geometer in the seconds before the blast. Which doesn't really make any sense. Well, let's say he already had the triangle drawn with sides a,b,c labeled. And he didn't have enough time to write down who did it, so he just drew one line and the letters m,n,d.
Okay fine, I just wanted to post a problem to the 'what happened' section for once.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #8 on: Mar 15th, 2008, 10:21am » |
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This riddle is too advanced to me. 'A man has to know his limitations.' 
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #9 on: Mar 15th, 2008, 1:18pm » |
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just explain it already!
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #10 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 3:27am » |
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I Googled "whatever".
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #11 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 3:50am » |
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My sink is a bomb.
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Eigenray
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #12 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 10:40am » |
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on Mar 16th, 2008, 3:27am, Grimbal wrote:| I Googled "a bomb in the sink". |
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #13 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 12:29pm » |
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I take it you're not a googler. 
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #14 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 1:32pm » |
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on Mar 14th, 2008, 2:06pm, Eigenray wrote:| As for the maths, you need nothing more advanced than Pythagoras. |
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Maybe an easier proof is to just use the law of cosines twice. But by now I'm sure you've Wikied the proof too, huh.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #15 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 3:38pm » |
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on Mar 16th, 2008, 10:40am, Eigenray wrote:
Sorry.
But you didn't expect me to reconstruct the mnemonic trick from the drawing, did you? You know the trick or you don't. I could have found the formula that works on the drawing, but I would never have found what it has to do with a sink.
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Re: Bomb in the sink
« Reply #16 on: Mar 16th, 2008, 3:52pm » |
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Well, I dunno. There's only one way to approximate 'bomb' and 'sink' with those letters. And how many words can you spell with the other two terms?
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