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(Message started by: bee-bee on Sep 14^th, 2003, 11:43am)

Title: nothing to infinity(need help)
Post by bee-bee on Sep 14^th, 2003, 11:43am

I am worth nothing
I am not roman

but two of me
is worth infinity

(sorry for the bad title )

can anyone figure this out?

Title: Re: nothing to infinity(need help)
Post by BNC on Sep 14^th, 2003, 11:52am

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I'm thinking: 0
0 is "nothing"
Its not a roman numeral

and two 0's is 00 that is similar to [infty]
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Title: Re: nothing to infinity(need help)
Post by Icarus on Sep 14^th, 2003, 8:00pm

The title is fine - though I would prefer no "need help" clause myself, this is only a mild preference, not a strong rule.

Our only complaint is with titles that don't give you any hint what is inside. (When you first read them, this is no big deal. But when you are looking for something, it's a lot easier when you can tell from the title whether or not you should check inside.) Yours does as good job at this as most.

My only disagreement with BNC is that I would not have said "I'm thinking". I would be very surprised to hear that the intended answer was anything else!