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(Message started by: Yerf on Aug 26^th, 2005, 10:55am)

Title: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by Yerf on Aug 26^th, 2005, 10:55am

I've searched for treads for this riddle and found none. I know what the answer is suppossed to be but I would like to see the math to dirive the solution.

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by towr on Aug 26^th, 2005, 11:43am

There is an earlier thread (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_medium;action=display;num=1027845810) about it, but it's a few years old and the search engine default to at most a year back.
But luckily the math hasn't changed too much ;)

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by Yerf on Aug 26^th, 2005, 12:52pm

THX. Not a good riddle. To many assumptions adn not a clear answer.

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by towr on Aug 26^th, 2005, 2:21pm

There are a lot of riddles of that kind, they're more jokes than puzzles, I think.
Instead of an 'aha erlebness' they evoke a *lol*-erlebnis ;)

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by ngpdoc on Sep 3^rd, 2005, 4:44am

What about, if the mother-child difference is 15 years, and after 4 years it becomes 4 times the age. Then where should the father be?

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by towr on Sep 3^rd, 2005, 2:55pm

on 09/03/05 at 04:44:53, ngpdoc wrote:

What about, if the mother-child difference is 15 years, and after 4 years it becomes 4 times the age. Then where should the father be?

[hideb]-In school (if he's similarly young as the mother)
-In jail (if old enough, and accused of statutory rape [note: age of consent is much more liberal in certain countries other than the US] )
-At work to provide for his family during working hours, and at home to spend time with them much of the rest of the time[/hideb]

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by segfault01 on May 24^th, 2006, 12:17am

[hide]if you calculate out the values, you'll get -3/4 years, which translates to -9 months. In other words, the baby is being made right now. Thus, unless artificial insemination is being used... well, hopefully you can figure out the rest.[/hide]

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by Death on Aug 10^th, 2006, 7:23am

ah, but then you have to take into consideration at what time is the baby considered as a "being". some people say that it is after fertilisation of the egg, while others say after a defined period of time (e.g. 28 days), while others still say that it is only after the primal streak has formed.

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by Icarus on Aug 10^th, 2006, 4:38pm

In this case, that definition is implicit in the question, since the question asserts that the child exists 9 months prior to its birth.

Title: Re: WHERE'S THE FATHER?
Post by Grimbal on May 8^th, 2017, 3:16pm

The riddle could state:

In one year from now the mother will be 21 years older than the child.
In 6 years from now, the mother will be 5 times as old as the child.
Where is the father?