Subject: uffda.
From: (JAXAshby)

Nah Jax, try to relax (we realized you were dying for an excuse to explain
"uffda", but none of us cared).
You need to try and hold your concentration long enough to read a full post for
context (obviously a serious problem for you ... reminds me of an ad I just saw
for AADD).
OK, I'll try to keep it simple for ya.... my post was in response to your post
which involved snipping and the reason you found it necessary to snip what I
had said.
Now ..... take a deep breath and try to stay focused.

Shen

nah, shen, uffda is a Midwest term meaning (in this context) "How dumb can
these clowns really be?".

ect: uffda.
From: (JAXAshby)

Interpretation:
Jax couldn't understand it.
Jax couldn't formulate an intelligent answer.

Shen

shen posts the following:

[snip of all but the important stuff]

bject: uffda.
From: "Jeff Morris"

Jeff, trying to clarify anything for Jax, would be like Jax trying to "clarify"
his position in fog by taking bearings on a fog signal ... and praying he'd
learned enough about chart reading to identify the correct signal.

Shen

"JAXAshby" wrote

jeffies, get your wife to read to you what you wrote, and have her explain
it
to you.

your statement does clearly show its intention that 2* not likely, but 5*
do-able.

Yup. That's right.


jeffies, if you meant -- as you say now -- there was no way in hell of
getting
even 5* just why did you not state that 10* or 15* or more had some real
degree of probabity?

There's clearly no limit to how badly YOU might screw it up.

Instead, you use words to indicate 2* maybe, and you
defended your statement again and again and again.

I try to clarify your misconception several times. Don't blame me for your
learning disability.

Subject: uffda.
From: (JAXAshby)

I can just imagine Jax trying to emulate her.
Jax, "lets see 000 X 000, is.......ummmmm......errrrrr..... HEY MA ??!!!"

Shen


I suppose she couldn't have been too bright.

Rick

she could multiply 3-digit numbers in her head,

want to see 254 * 256 in my head?

okay ends in 24

next digits back = 650

answer is: 65024

literally, done in my head that fast.

no smoke, no mirrors.

I can just imagine Jax trying to emulate her.
Jax, "lets see 000 X 000, is.......ummmmm......errrrrr..... HEY MA ??!!!"

Shen


I suppose she couldn't have been too bright.

Rick

she could multiply 3-digit numbers in her head,

answer is: 65024

literally, done in my head that fast.

no smoke, no mirrors.

however, there was a "trick", two actually.

First, two numbers multipied together that differ by two will give a product
that is 1 less than the square of the number between them.

Second, a number squared that ends in 5 gives a product that ends in 25, and
the other digits are equal to the remaining digit(s) times itself plus one.

Got it?

jeffies wife will explain it if you ask her.

Subject: uffda.
From: (JAXAshby)

Want to see 2546 * 2547 in my head?

ok ends in 62

next digits back = 846

final digits back = 64

answer 6484662

literally done in my head that fast.

no smoke no mirrors

Shen


want to see 254 * 256 in my head?

okay ends in 24

next digits back = 650

answer is: 65024

literally, done in my head that fast.

no smoke, no mirrors.

shen, LOL, you made yourself a fool, for *those* numbers can't be worked that
way.

dumb try, shen. dumb. but I applaud your effort.

Want to see 2546 * 2547 in my head?

ok ends in 62

next digits back = 846

final digits back = 64

answer 6484662

literally done in my head that fast.

no smoke no mirrors

Shen


want to see 254 * 256 in my head?

okay ends in 24

next digits back = 650

answer is: 65024

literally, done in my head that fast.

no smoke, no mirrors.

Subject: uffda.
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 03/12/2004 16:52 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

shen, LOL, you made yourself a fool, for *those* numbers can't be worked that
way.

OH? prove it... my mind works in ways you will never understand, and since we
were talking mental calculations, who are you to tell me I can't work things in
a particular way in my own mind. (statement, not a question). All you can
question is the accuracy of my statement, and after the fact, I checked my
calculations on a calculator and found them correct.

If you wish, waste some time and prove me wrong...... nah, don't do that ....
even YOU won't understand what you're saying.

Shen

Subject: uffda.
From: (JAXAshby)
Date: 03/12/2004 16:41 Pacific Standard Time
Message-id:

answer is: 65024

literally, done in my head that fast.

no smoke, no mirrors.

however, there was a "trick", two actually.


ewwww , tricky...you needed to use tricks. I, on the other hand prefer a visual
memory method.

Shen

bull. there is no intuitive way to calculate the product of those numbers in
that way, any more than you can calc a 4th root of a number algabraicly with a
pencil and paper.

There ARE ways to calc that product in one's head, but not in the fashion you
claimed. None.

sorry, dude.

wanna see me do square roots using an adding machine? $100 and I will show
you.

shen, LOL, you made yourself a fool, for *those* numbers can't be worked
that
way.

OH? prove it... my mind works in ways you will never understand, and since we
were talking mental calculations, who are you to tell me I can't work things
in
a particular way in my own mind. (statement, not a question). All you can
question is the accuracy of my statement, and after the fact, I checked my
calculations on a calculator and found them correct.

If you wish, waste some time and prove me wrong...... nah, don't do that ....
even YOU won't understand what you're saying.

Shen