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What did I do wrong? (Posted on 2022-04-22)

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?

Submitted by Larry

Rating: 5.0000 (2 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

The shift key is not working. So instead of typing an asterisk for multiplication, I typed an 8.
correct ... what I saw ... working shift key
14060592 182787696 .. 1827*7696
90675 .... 1178775 ..... 117*775
59906 .... 778778 ...... 77*778
291375 .. 3787875 ..... 37*7875
4445208 . 57787704 .... 577*7704
67529 .... 877877 ....... 877*77

Comments: ( You must be logged in to post comments.)

Subject	Author	Date
re(2): Some thoughts	tonny ken	2022-05-13 05:12:33
Solution	tomarken	2022-05-06 11:15:40
re: Some thoughts	Larry	2022-04-22 15:20:42
Some thoughts	Jer	2022-04-22 12:51:10

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