Is This Over The Top?

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Is This Over The Top?

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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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Yes. Definitely. I'm not sure I could figure that out right now. Too tired.
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Umm, making a thread for it is...


Guess they should call it "Are you a human being?"
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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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-67 + epsilon :D
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Netwatcher wrote:Umm, making a thread for it is...
If people want to talk about it, then why not make a thread for it?
I'll write a signature once I get some creativity and inspiration...
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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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rolland wrote:
Netwatcher wrote:Umm, making a thread for it is...
If people want to talk about it, then why not make a thread for it?
Never said it's a bad thing, just that it's over the top...
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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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That's the worst spambot check I've ever seen. While it's nearly impossible for the majority of humans to do without finding some sort of tool to assist them, I'm pretty sure I could craft up a spambot in about 3 minutes that would solve any math problem worded like that (provided it's text and not a Java applet, my OCR skills are rather lacking). ;)
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dandymcgee wrote:That's the worst spambot check I've ever seen. While it's nearly impossible for the majority of humans to do without finding some sort of tool to assist them, I'm pretty sure I could craft up a spambot in about 3 minutes that would solve any math problem worded like that (provided it's text and not a Java applet, my OCR skills are rather lacking). ;)
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dandymcgee wrote:That's the worst spambot check I've ever seen. While it's nearly impossible for the majority of humans to do without finding some sort of tool to assist them, I'm pretty sure I could craft up a spambot in about 3 minutes that would solve any math problem worded like that (provided it's text and not a Java applet, my OCR skills are rather lacking). ;)
I agree, but perhaps that's the test. A spambot would solve it and type in the answer, while a human would just write "wtf" or something like that. :D

Anyway, since there is no comma in the text I believe the answer would be about 1.39297278 * 10^-22, but I'm not sure... ;)
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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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Arti-Ravnos wrote:
dandymcgee wrote:That's the worst spambot check I've ever seen. While it's nearly impossible for the majority of humans to do without finding some sort of tool to assist them, I'm pretty sure I could craft up a spambot in about 3 minutes that would solve any math problem worded like that (provided it's text and not a Java applet, my OCR skills are rather lacking). ;)
I agree, but perhaps that's the test. A spambot would solve it and type in the answer, while a human would just write "wtf" or something like that. :D

Anyway, since there is no comma in the text I believe the answer would be about 1.39297278 * 10^-22, but I'm not sure... ;)
I got:

sqrt(395025/(1242^(23-67)))^3 = 4.0454067809900981335180095139205e+212 :lol:

This problem isn't even feasible WITH a calculator because of the many different ways it can be read.
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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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dandymcgee wrote: I got:
sqrt(395025/(1242^(23-67)))^3 = 4.0454067809900981335180095139205e+212 :lol:
This problem isn't even feasible WITH a calculator because of the many different ways it can be read.
I read it like this:
cuberoot of (395025/(1242^23)-67). :P I still think "wtf" would be the correct answer. xD
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Re: Is This Over The Top?

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I'm a little late to the party, but... where is this?
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