[ExI] puzzle

[William Flynn Wallace]

There is a real life answer to this puzzle in which you don't have to
change anything, like you do in the clock example, though that is
imaginative.  bill w

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 3:09 PM SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> That is the worst handwritten 50 I think I have ever seen.
>
> And here I was trying to think about a system of math based on base 50
> system with no indexation of pos/neg and/or an absolute value system.
>
> Occam’s razor I suppose.
>
> Suppose in this system 0+100 would be better notated as 0+2(50).
>
> I actually kind of enjoyed this exercise. It could also be viewed as
> distance on the circle from a predetermined location, you can’t get more
> than 50 away because you’d be off the circle.
>
> On Nov 13, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Will  <steinberg.will at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A clock, with 0 at the 12 o'clock position, counting up to 50 at 6
> o'clock, and counting back down to 0 on the other half.
>
> Picture: https://imgur.com/a/mb93qDG
>
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:23 AM William Flynn Wallace <
> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 50+ 50 = 0
>> 50 + 10 = 40
>> 50 - 10 = 40
>> 30 + 20 = 50 OR 10
>> 10 + 10 = 0 OR 20
>> 0 + 100 = 0
>> 48 + 4 = 48 OR 44
>>
>> I will send more if needed.
>>
>> bill w
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