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Originally Posted by saden1
I was having a hard time with the following formula last week as I was trying to calculate the original size of content encoded in Base64. It looks simple but it took me couple of hours to figure it out! Any of you fellas want to take a crack at it?
Equation:
((x + 3 - (x MOD 3)) / 3) * 4 = y
Question:
What is x?
Hint: Just do simple algebra to get x on one side all by itself.
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Ok, first we get rid of MOD because I don't like it there and I can because I have MOD(erator) powers. So we get:
((x + 3 - (3x))/ 3) * 4 =y
And we remove the number 4 because Matty said so, and he's the Admin
So ((x + 3 - (3x))/ 3) =y. Now multiple each side by 3
3x + 9 - 3x =3y
3y=9
y =3
or why 3
or "What is Question 3"
Nice try Saden, you thought you could fool us!
(by the way, Hail2em, I'm looking for some historical winning percentages. No luck so far)