While typing into the keyboard and staring at the screen of my old laptop, I attempted to multiply two integers, but when I checked the result by hand, the computer had given me the wrong answer.
The incorrect answer was exactly
13 times larger than the correct result. I repeated this process five more times with different pairs of integers and I continued to get a result exactly 13 times too large.
The products I should have obtained were:
14060592, 90675, 59906, 291375, 445208 and 67529.
Is there something wrong with my laptop?
(In reply to
Some thoughts by Jer)
Jer, yes you are on the right track.
I will say that I had not realized that the full 3-digit sequence "787" was in each of these, so there is an element of coincidence there.
And note the last sentence of the problem:
"Is there something wrong with my laptop?"
(it's both math and a puzzle)
Edited on April 22, 2022, 3:29 pm
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Posted by Larry
on 2022-04-22 15:20:42 |
re: Some thoughts
