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I've been hoarding this one for a while, trying to decide what to do with it, and I've decided to throw it open to the unwashed masses.
PM your bad definitions to me within the octave (that's one more than normal!) -- and be vewy, vewy caweful.
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This is not my definition, tsuwm, but you'll have to admit that it is a strange coincidence... The letters POWFAG represents the number 76-9324 on your touch tone phone. Assume it is a toll free number. 1-800-_76-9324. Fill in the blank based on the numbers given. Yes, you are right...0,1,2,3,4,_,6,7,8,9, all numbers are represented but the 5. Now add the 5 and call the number...I-800-576-9324. You will reach the Powerpoint Federation of Algebra Games and will be asked to make a small donation. Strange. 
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Powerpoint Federation of Algebra Games
Uh-huh.
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*Watches a slideshow*
"Rearrange the numbers 3, 8, 3, 8 into any order, and place any operation (parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction) between each to reach a total of 24.
Example: (3+8)*3-8 = 25 != 24"
-The Powerpoint Federation of Algebra Games
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AniamL I sent you a PM. 
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(3+8)*3-8 = 25 != 24
I think the workaround for not being able to type an "is unequal to" sign
is to use "<>", as in "24<>25", which would be read as "24 is not equal to 25."
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In C and C++ it's !=, if I remember correctly. But that's as far as my computer programming language goes - I've never seen the "<>" operand.
"Rearrange the numbers 3, 8, 3, 8 into any order, and place any operation (parentheses, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction) between each to reach a total of 24."
-This is an entertaining math problem if one of you wants to take a stab.
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<> is what it was in Basic and Fortran, IIRC.
Some people think bad puns are funny forever, I think once is too much.
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I think the workaround for not being able to type an "is unequal to" sign
is to use "<>", as in "24<>25", which would be read as "24 is not equal to 25."
Depends on the language. In the numerous versions of BASIC with which I have had acquaintance, "<>" is used. In C/C++ and java, "!=" is used. In fortran its ".ne." . In perl, as in lisp, there are different versions depending on what you want to compare.
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In the numerous versions of BASIC with which I have had acquaintance, "<>" is used.
Curses; I am discovered...
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equals 576.
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`/3*8*3*8 =the square root of 576, which is 24. This works for ANY order of the 3s and 8s.
I admit that it is ALMOST a cheat, since if you were doing cube roots you would need to specify the root, and the 2 is assumed in this case. And for the life of me I cannot remember what the
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I've always called it a "radical."
This reminds me of the four fours game where you try to make all the numbers using exactly four fours in any combination and the basic mathematical operations.
44 - 44 = 0
44/44 = 1
4/4 + 4/4 = 2
(4+4+4)/4 = 3
4 * (4-4)/4 = 4
and so on.
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It is cheating. I said multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, and I did say between each of the numbers. There is a better solution, and it doesn't require turning the 8 sideways into an infinity sign. So what is the point of a signature anyway?
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Well I thought the pun was funny, so there Monsieur Faldage  But I do agree, that that signature thing becomes redundant very quickly. Since we post here like conversations, you have to compare it to a live conversation you might be having with somebody standing in front of you. If you kept repeating the same sentence after every comment you made, they'd thing you a bit loopy.
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Well, nearly everyone who frequents any other forum, so I've found, has a signature that reveals something about him or her or a signature that contains something that he or she finds funny. Then again, it's usually separated from the post by a horizontal line or something. Personally, I really don't understand why you would mind a signature like that. Maybe it's distracting to all of you, but I didn't even notice it, Faldage, when you created your signature as a jab. But whatever. It's not important. I appreciate people's signatures, and I don't find them distracting at all, and I don't think that typing to each other on a forum is even vaguely similar to talking to someone in real life, but I think I'm in the minority here.
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The first sigs I recall seeing were disclaimers. Most people used to get on the net from school or work. In order to distance our opinions from those of our employers, we often added these things. I don't know if they had any legal grounding.
My first sig was "My employers don't tell me what to say and I don't tell them where to stick it."
A while later I changed it to "My employers disagree with everything I say, think, feel, do, or plan to do."
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well, this thread certainly went "beyond the valley of the hogs". I believe the octave comes due tomorrow (Sat. that is).
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..and I'll post the entries tomorrow morning (or so).
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Or so....Sun's up in Virginia. Hogs is hungry.
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