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LauraH
February 18th, 2003, 3:55pm
Check out this website. It has been right 9 times out of 10 for me!!!:wink3:
LauraH
February 18th, 2003, 3:55pm
http://www.cyberglass.co.uk/assets/Flash/psychic.swf
Sorry forgot to post website. :p
SSteacher
February 18th, 2003, 4:10pm
Totally cool! How does it work?:grin2:
LauraH
February 18th, 2003, 4:11pm
I'm sorry, but I don't know how it works. It is neat, isn't it?
JOYWIND
February 18th, 2003, 5:53pm
ewww, that's eerie. I demand a logical explanation or I won't be able to sleep:grin5:
Thanks, I sent this to all my friends so I could freak them out too!!
mjordan29
February 18th, 2003, 6:28pm
Man, this freaked me out for a bit as well. The trick is that everytime you go to the main page, the symbols have changed what number they're associated with. Let's say you pick 96. 96-15 =81. But if you pick 95, 95-14=81. And 94 gives you 81 as well. But the symbol for 81 changes everytime you go back so it seems like it's predicting different symbols.
You're answer will always be one of these numbers:98,83,81,77,72,63,54,45,36,27,18,9, or 0. And each of these numbers has the same symbol as the others even though that particular symbol changes each game.
VSLibby
February 18th, 2003, 6:29pm
I was thinking, hmmm, it's just some kind of math trick . . . until I realized that I hadn't put in the number I had chosen.
I'm dumb.
And now I'm dumb and spooked.
:grin5:
--Valerie
daisy3600
February 18th, 2003, 7:49pm
It is cool!:)
lkhenderson
February 18th, 2003, 8:28pm
Yep. Any way you work the equation you'll come up with a multiple of 9 (9, 18, 27,...) and each time you re-load the game, notice that the symbols beside all of these multiples is exactly the same! No matter which 2-digit number you pick, you'll get one of those "divisible by nine" symbols.
Plus, I figured if it was really psychic, I shouldn't have to do a math problem, so I tried that, and it failed.;)
Ron
February 18th, 2003, 9:07pm
For those of you that want a mathematical explanation, here goes.
A number 23 can be defined as 10 * 2 + 3
A number 94 can be defined as 10 * 9 + 4
so in general, a two digit number can be defined as
10 * x + y where x and y are the digits.
Now we are required to subtract the sum of the digits from the number so in our equation it becomes
(10 * x + y ) - (x + y)
which is 9 * x
So we are sure that the outcome will *always* be a multiple of 9. So for each screen you will notice that multiples of 9 always have the same symbol.
I must tell you that I was really spooked when I saw it first. :D
-rk
warning
February 18th, 2003, 9:22pm
WOW That is a cool math problem.....
:cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2: