That works unless he comes up with a rule that the 9's have to look alike. But you can do better.
Move the lower left vertical from the 0 to the middle horizontal position you get 9 as you did.?ÿ Move the lower left vertical from the 8 to the uper right vertical of the 5 and get 9.
999
Matchstick puzzles are the only puzzles I can figger out. (There was nothing else to do all day and we only had recess for one hour a day) ?????ÿ
unless he comes up with a rule that the 9's have to look alike
You read waaaay too much into simple problems making them much more complex and thus unsolvable to you without superfluous hoop jumping.?ÿ?????ÿ
It's not even a number. It's a three-letter abbreviation for the last person who wronged you.
999
Not yet mentioned 15118
He says it has to be 3 digits.?ÿ But if you used your technique why not 51181 ?
Even better. A bit embarrassing for me to put the 1 in front instead of the end.
F88 hexadecimal is 3976 base 10.
Ask for a log so you can cross a stream and you get a eclectic Golden Gate wannabe design proposal based on the construction plans of the Landfill project in Pascagoula Mississippi
I'll bet all of y'all that overcomplicated the third grade question posted work for a large company or municipal bureaucracy. ie; groomed to answer anything except the question when stuck in perpetual doubt. ?????ÿ
@flga-2
What is the biggest number that you can name? Can you easily name one that's even bigger?
999 Yabbadabbadoozillion
If yer tryin?? to confuse an idiot you??ve succeeded. That??s like a piece of paper with ??see other side? written on both sides. Also any large numbers that aren??t associated with surveying are automatically converted into today??s dollars which in my world cease at 99 million. ?????ÿ
What are you yabba dabba doing about? Yer included in the overthinking batch of Engineers too. ?????ÿ
@flga-2
"THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK"
But the page is not blank???
We were asked for the largest number we knew.?ÿ I don't know what comes after 999 yabbadabbadoozillion.
Wait!?ÿ What!?ÿ I thought we talking about numbers.?ÿ Who brought up banging and screwing and other such naughty stuff this early on a weekend morning?
