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(Message started by: cheesepuff on Nov 11^th, 2005, 6:32pm)

Title: Lost will
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 11^th, 2005, 6:32pm

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?

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Neelesh on Nov 11^th, 2005, 10:09pm

[hideb]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 ::)
[/hideb]

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by cheesepuff18 on Nov 12^th, 2005, 6:57pm

this is cheesepuff from another computer

yeah, your right. [hide]you can't hide anything between one sheet of paper[/hide]

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Mike_V on Nov 12^th, 2005, 9:52pm

What about a watermark?

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Grimbal on Nov 13^th, 2005, 3:17am

What about a single-sided printout?

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 14^th, 2005, 6:38pm

its a will, not a watermark

and books usually are written with writing and page numbers given to both sides of a page

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Grimbal on Nov 15^th, 2005, 1:06am

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.

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by towr on Nov 15^th, 2005, 2:33am

And even if they lied about where they found the will, or simply made a mistake, it's no ground for dismissing the will.

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 15^th, 2005, 7:27pm

why lie about where they found the will? and sorry, I didn't say it was a book, but it was

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by towr on Nov 16^th, 2005, 2:04am

on 11/15/05 at 19:27:55, 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.

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Grimbal on Nov 16^th, 2005, 10:01am

What if the book was not numbered in base 10?
::)

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 16^th, 2005, 6:25pm

on 11/16/05 at 10:01:33, Grimbal wrote:

What if the book was not numbered in base 10?
::)

could you find me a book not numbered in base 10?...

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Grimbal on Nov 17^th, 2005, 12:38am

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? ::)

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Neelesh on Nov 17^th, 2005, 12:57am

on 11/17/05 at 00:38:25, Grimbal wrote:

can you think of a base where 157 and 158 are on different physical pages? ::)

Interesting.
[hide] (157)_b = ( 7 + 5*b + b² ) ₁₀ and hence for all values of b, this number will be "odd".[/hide]

So if we assume that pages of book are numbered starting with 1 on RHS page, then [hide] not possible [/hide]

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by towr on Nov 17^th, 2005, 1:26am

Maybe if you don't use an integer base.. ::)

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by Grimbal on Nov 17^th, 2005, 3:40am

Probably an alien book printed on fractal paper to save weight.

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by cheesepuff on Nov 17^th, 2005, 7:06pm

on 11/17/05 at 03:40:47, Grimbal wrote:

Probably an alien book printed on fractal paper to save weight.

Interesting agent Mulder

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by gigbox_69 on Jan 11^th, 2006, 6:48pm

the pages 157 and 158 are on the same peice of paper just on different sides?

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by william11141 on Jan 6^th, 2007, 8:07pm

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.

Title: Re: Lost will
Post by towr on Jan 7^th, 2007, 9:13am

on 01/06/07 at 20:07:57, 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.