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A man comes up with two numbers between 1 and 99 (meaning not 1 or 99 but from 2 to 98). The sum of these two numbers is under 99. He tells one person the sum of these numbers and another person the product of these numbers. The person with the product comes up to the person with the sum and says "i don't know the two numbers". The person with the sum replies with "i know that you don't know the two numbers". Immediately, the man with the product says "now i know the two numbers" and the man with the sum says "now i know the two numbers too". What are the two numbers? There is no word play involved.. it is a real problem with a real answer.


i found it hard :<

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what ?

i didn´t even understand the text, so i guess im not smarter :3
Lets hope he explains it in English as I also have no idea what he's going on about...
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ask perfo
fuck off, the edit part I wrote before everyone replied (u can check it by watching the edit time, although I might have edited it a 2nd time by adding the 2nd rule). I just read that thing wrong, I thought they payed 35 euro's in total, that's why I said they all payed 11,67, cuz 35:3=11,67. 11,67-1 = 10,67. 10.67*3=32, which leaves the 3 euro's, that's why I immediately noticed that it was wrong what I wrote and I edited it.
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Really there are still 3 kinds of related journals to this one, not funny any more!
i know the solution but the problem is too bullshit cause you need to write alot of stuff down to find it. Its a problem of basic mathematical and logical skill, if you work it out you will find it.

btw the solution is nrs 4 and 13 (ive had the same problem in my uni math class in my 1st year)

edit: solution after googling:

http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/pow/pow5sol.pdf
they're talking all the time about (p,s) = (52, 17), which makes no sense because according to them the numbers are 4 and 13, and product is 42, not 52. i thought it was a typing mistake, but i see it more than once
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13*4 = 52

lol 14*3 = 42, i made the same mistake xD
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lol. right, i started counting 14 and 3 for some reason :X
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yeah i did the same and was like lol :D
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A man comes up with two numbers between 1 and 99 (meaning not 1 or 99 but from 2 to 98). The sum of these two numbers is under 1 and indicates the care-factor for journals like this.

Any ideas? -_-
Stop posting this stuff! It's distracting me from my homework :<
there are multiple answers i think, there is no way that this can be solved by 2 specific numbers
read 4 13 @ some random forum, and they could only solve it by brute forcing it also says ^^
as high as spree iq
is that Sweden alexL ?
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doesnt look that strong :o)
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bb im off

still <3 u :)
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:D im an e-thug?
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hard way: trial and error
easy way: write a shell script
nice pic
Wierd problem... Well... if the product guy doesn't know the numbers then his number can't be written as a product of 2 primes. So we must remove those numers p1*p2 from the possible solutions. Next... if the sum guys knows that he doesn't know means that his sum can't be written as a sum of 2 primes(?). We remove those from our solution.
I guess that next we must try all the numbers, decomposem them in all the a*b possible then test if a+b can be written as sum of 2 primes. If yes... we drop them from the sollution :-?? and pray that only one solution remains in the end.
something like that. Like meez said, trial n error,pretty lame
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