Take the mathgeek test...

I am a Math God. I got 21/21 on the Math Geek test. http://mathtest.idiotworld.com">Take the test!

*Grin*  Took me one and a half hours (no cheating).  I spent most of that time on one of the \'out there\' ones and one of the \'it takes\' ones.  Technically, though I did get two \'wrong\' at first.  1, 1, 3, 11, 45, 197, --- really does have two valid answers....  The boxes change green or red after a minute or so if you fill them in.


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The \'out there\' ones are nigh impossible if you haven\'t been to NY, or don\'t watch a certain show we discuss on these forums on TV, or don\'t follow baseball...  The hardest series ones... well, you only have a hope if you did some binomial series,  Mersenne primes, and lots of other geeky stuff in math courses at the post-secondary (university) level.

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By the way, if you are like me, and have done some of this stuff, this will probably be the one and only time you will ever need to use it in your life.

[Paul2]

My goodness, I only got two rights on the first and third freebies and i give up on the rest of it.  The second one is hard for me.  And when i look at the rest of the problems, i just give up...it seems like you are very smart at figuring out patterns because i just gotten tired and surrender right away...

The \'freebies\' are just basic arithmetic.

#2... hint... You probably did this one at some point in school, grade school.  Look at the pattern, it\'s 0-1-1-2-3-5-#-13-21-34-55-89-144-233...  Think .... addition.

#4... hint ... really easy.  Don\'t think arithmetic.  Think... circles... think... apple ____.... think .... ... ... ALL THE NUMBERS AS A WHOLE....

#5... hint... something odd about these numbers.  Howabout you *try* to factor them....

#6... Think factorials.  I personally would have put this in the second section, and moved the first couple from that section up, but I see what they\'re trying to do.  

Now... they don\'t get hard until the second group, and even then, the first few are still arithmetic.
The first... think adding a certain amount to each number, and that amount increasing.  
The second one is pretty simple.  Just READ each one, slowly.  Read each number in the series one number at a time... and it might hit you.  hint... the first number of the answer is 3......  
As for the third one... what could you add to the 1st number to get to the second?  What to add to the second to get the third?  Write those down.. seeing a pattern yet?

Some hints on the \'out there\' ones...
1) I\'m just lost as to how to give a hint for this one.
2) Baseball steroids effect?
3) Riding subways in NYC can be risky business, especially if you don\'t know where to get off.


 You have to approach each set with no assumptions.  Don\'t look for an assumed pattern, just study the numbers individually and as a whole until you see something unfold.  For the advanced ones.. you really aren\'t going to see anything there unless you have worked with series before, and they\'re familiar.  Even then, you might have to try a few things before you figure out the right answers....

The first section has one-transormation or single operation patterns.  The second section has second order patterns as well as \'trick\' patterns.  The third section is where you hit advanced patterns based on higher math knowledge.

[Viper_Fujax]

i hate math with a passion..and it hates me

Originally posted by Viper_Fujax
i hate math with a passion..and it hates me

It won\'t let me take the test but I just got a 94% on my Calc 2 midterm