Any mathematicians amongst us?

[betty swollocks]

It's a friend's 50th soon and I want to get him a card. He's a scientist and mathematician, so I was thinking of getting him a five year old's card and amending it with complicated algebra - ie loads of x's y's other symbols and brackets and stuff, to eventually arrive at 50. Can anyone help??.....I am not a scientist and mathematician.....)

 

[PK99]

It's a friend's 50th soon and I want to get him a card. He's a scientist and mathematician, so I was thinking of getting him a five year old's card and amending it with complicated algebra - ie loads of x's y's other symbols and brackets and stuff, to eventually arrive at 50. Can anyone help??.....I am not a scientist and mathematician.....)

You could get him a cake instead and put 6 candle holders, but only 3 candles positioned thus > 110010.

ie 50 in binary notation

 

[Norry1]

There are only 10 types of people. Those who get binary and those that don't

 

[pplpilot]

It's a friend's 50th soon and I want to get him a card. He's a scientist and mathematician, so I was thinking of getting him a five year old's card and amending it with complicated algebra - ie loads of x's y's other symbols and brackets and stuff, to eventually arrive at 50. Can anyone help??.....I am not a scientist and mathematician.....)

I did this with a friends 40th, I used Wiki as a starter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_(number)

 

[ayceejay]

Not a mathematical genius me but what about a getting an age 100 card striking it through and inside write divided by 2 or minus 50 or pi times something or other?

 

[betty swollocks]

You could get him a cake instead and put 6 candle holders, but only 3 candles positioned thus > 110010.

ie 50 in binary notation

Funny you should mention this, as he and I put an app together called 'Beyenary Time' and which is available for free download from the Iphone app store

 

[tyred]

50 is also 32 in Hex and 62 in Octal.

 

[goody]

5 X 10 = 50, simples!

 

[Davidc]

0101 0000

in bcd

 

[colly]

Write your own formula, make it as complex as you want /are able to.

Just start with 50 multiply it square the answer, divide the answer, get the cube root etc etc and so on and so on until you have had enough. Make it as difficult as you are able.
Then write it all down in reverse, if he gets it correct it should come back to 50.

 

[JtB]

[QUOTE 2506795, member: 9609"]you mean 2 ?[/quote]Yes that's what he said, 10 types of people.

 

[morrisman]

There are only 10 types of people. Those who get binary and those that don't

There are only 10 types of people.

Those who get binary
Those who don't get binary
Those who don't get that the joke is in base 3

 

[JtB]

Binary is base 2.

 

[morrisman]

Binary is base 2.

I know!

 

[Dan B]

[QUOTE 2507172, member: 9609"]so why dont they say 'binary is base 10' [/quote]
Just as true of hexadecimal