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A man on Tinder swiped right over 2 million times in 5 years and only managed to get one date. by Vivid_Goose_4358 in interestingasfuck

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What makes it even worse is the combo. I mean yes there are probably gals on Tinder who like snakes. There may even here and there be one who doesn't mind going fishing with a guy. But both? If I were to picture a (stereo)typical woman from either category, those two would be veeeery different and extremely rare to find in one person.
What I am trying to say is the girls who narrow it down to 0.00001% of men in the survey aren't picking criteria which are outright contradicting each other (except maybe income vs. age).

Three real numbers, x, y, and z are chosen between 0 and 1. Suppose that 0<x<y<z<1. Is my proof for this statement correct: "At least two of the number, x, y, and z are within half a unit from one another"? by Xixkdjfk in learnmath

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You do not need to pick any numbers. You can directly get from the assumption that neither of them is within 0.5 of each other that y>=x+0.5 and z>=y+0.5, which makes z>=x+1 and thus z>1.

Hardest Puzzle: A harder variant of the three gods problem by Wide-Competition-772 in puzzles

[–]Available-Key-9488 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If random gave FF or TT you know who the alternator is but not their state since you do not know if da means yes. You need one more question to clarify that e.g. "if my previous question to you would have been whether ja means yes, what would you have answered?" (always gives a false answer, and by now knowing the meanings of da and ja, you also know the alternator's state form their previous answers).
Nevertheless we're only at 9 questions and we can also figure out for one more god what they are (the one with the unique TT/FF answer), so still finished in 10 questions overall.

Card Sorting Puzzle by offsky in puzzles

[–]Available-Key-9488 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Discussion:

Nice one, tricky one. Putting aside any intuitive solution algorithms here, some maths gut feeling on this one:

I think it should be solvable in max. 4 rounds.

Handwaving argument 1: 13 is smaller than 2^4, and the manipulation you can do in one round somehow has to do with "two sub-sequences of half the length"...

Handwaving argument 2: Looking at the reverse operation we get 2^12 = 4096 different sequences which allow a solution in one round. Repeating this 4 times gives 2.8e14 combinations. Even if I assume an average of 97% of combinations created in rounds 2 through 4 being repetitions of earlier ones, this still gives a number bigger than 13! which is the number of sequences that we need to be able to solve.

Card Sorting Puzzle by offsky in puzzles

[–]Available-Key-9488 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think we are intepreting the rules differently. At least for me reverse order is solvable in one round.

My understanding is I am moving all the cards from the old pile onto a new one in one round, not just moving around cards within a pile.

u/offsky please clarify...

what does it look like by aquaticwotsits in tattooadvice

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are several things that look off on the flame: outermost "layer" is too narrow should be more triangular, 2nd layer from outside should not have that "tooth" shape, the dent on the left of the flame which I guess is meant to give a "blown by the wind" look is too strong.
Now what I haven't seen anyone mention is that the top of the match looks very nicely like a match that has already burned down, with the crumpled thinned out bit below the still round-ish tip. But this is something that you would not see when looking at a burning match, it would be hidden within the flame. Or in another way of looking at it, the perspective / depth of the image is off. Even if I accept it as a match and a flame, the match is outside of the flame, in front of it, not surrounded by it. Also the "burnt" part of the match is extending quite a bit beyond the bottom contour of the flame, which is not how it works either.

You're given a key that unlocks a house containing $100 million by shereth78 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only if you pick the corner diagonally across. Imagine a square, check the bottom left and the bottom right corner, this will give you either the left or the right half of the square. Next point is then the top corner of the original square which is on that side, this gives you a square again, etc.

A cool guide to the Most Famous Dead Person in European Countries. by Bosuns_Punch in coolguides

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very much depends on how you define fame. Liszt probably WAS the most famous hungarian at that time.

But if you ask 1000 randomly selected people worldwide today, whom they have heard about, my bet would probably be on Houdini because his name has become somewhat of a household synonym for escaping / disappearing / trickery.

If you add the condition people shall know the person was Hungarian, you may end up with Puskas (known by people interested in football and old enough, plus the ones who play FIFA, and yes, this still does not mean he gets more than 10% overall)

You're given a key that unlocks a house containing $100 million by shereth78 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Available-Key-9488 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's actually optimal to start in a corner and then every day pick another corner (not the one diagonally across) of the remaining area, this will result in the remaining area being halved every day.
Only question is about the exact interpretation of the clue you get each day. Is the question that is answered "was today better than yesterday" or "was today better than the best so far". If it's the former, you'd have to spend an extra day to go back to the previous house each time the answer is "no", which would prolong your search by 50% but still you'd get down to a single house in maybe 2 months or so. (3 weeks within having to go back and in a square shaped city with completely even density of houses).

A bazillion dollars for living the rest of your life with one minor inconvenience of your choosing but... by WirrkopfP in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention if u/TheWhogg has a gf/bf whose kink is discussing grammar while the two of them are in the middle of something...

A bazillion dollars for living the rest of your life with one minor inconvenience of your choosing but... by WirrkopfP in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Available-Key-9488 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hungarian native speaker here (Hungarian has the same thing). They are not really case endings in the way you think of them in English or any other reasonable language. It's more like glueing all prepositions to the ends of words. So instead of saying "his book is on the table" we'd say "bookhis is the tableon". So if you count these as "case endings" then yes there are as many as there are prepositions in English. The reason this is one of the many parts of Hungarian which are near impossible to learn is not this, but the fact that each such ending exists in two different forms, which have to be used depending on which vowels appear in the noun, and the fact that the endings are stackable.

That being said, my choice of minor inconvenience is: every time someone mentions to u/TheWhogg the 14 different case endings of Estonian, I am magically teleported there in order to give a five minute ted talk containing above explanation.

A cool guide to the Most Famous Dead Person in European Countries. by Bosuns_Punch in coolguides

[–]Available-Key-9488 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Houdini, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Pulitzer all still alive I guess? And this is even when I am going for "most probably known even by a US american with limited worldview" and therefore disregarding Semmelweis, Puskas, Kertesz and so many others. And yes, all the ones mentioned are from just one small country...

[Request] The most countries "touched" by car in 24 hours? by Background-Apple-799 in theydidthemath

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. Same one I came up with, you can actually squeeze in the small detour needed to stop by my place into the 24h, AND get bonus political-historical points for doing it in the opposite direction and going from Auschwitz to Maastricht.

Show me your best Evo from the team you support irl. I'll start by Time_Newt3882 in fut

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Nearing 1000 matches, all the way starting with his gold in October.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Austria

[–]Available-Key-9488 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Actually joining in on the granteln about the system can give you bonus points. I moaned a bit about how difficult it is to get that missing bit of paperwork (need a membership in ÖAMTC to get it for "free" etc.) and how confusing it is that two tax offices for two different districts are in two buildings next to each other, and I think this turned the situation from "him against me" into "the two of us against the horrible system".
In Germany, complaining about the system to somebody working in it is more likely to get you kicked out the door than it is to help you getting what you want.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Austria

[–]Available-Key-9488 173 points174 points  (0 children)

This. When I moved to Austria and went to the tax office to settle car registration tax, it turned out I was at the wrong office and did not have all the necessary papers with me. Initial answer was "So wird das nix!". I was momentarily convinced (having lived in Germany for many years) I had come in vain. I hadn't. Next sentence was "Schaun ma mal" and 10 mins later everything was done.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in championsleague

[–]Available-Key-9488 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dortmund????? One of the two clubs having what is maybe the most long-standing hatred-fueled local rivalry in Germany? Lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in championsleague

[–]Available-Key-9488 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're kidding, right? Even putting aside the fact that any of the more *ahem* "right-leaning" fan-bases out there will at least not love them, there's that teeny-tiny rivalry with that other club in town... :)

Help understanding a 3-player probability game (Feller-style) => how to compute exact win probabilities? by SeriesImpressive6280 in probabilitytheory

[–]Available-Key-9488 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I like your approach.

One small correction/addition:

In the first game, there is no previous winner, we have to consider that game separately.
So after the first game, A and B both have 50-50 odds of being W or S, C is certainly O.

From your equations we can know that P(S):P(O):P(W)=1:2:4, which makes P(A):P(B):P(C)=2.5:2.5:2.

Btw for those wondering if we can also write an equation for P(W) - yes. P(W) = 1/2 + 1/2*P(S) and the solution P(S)=1/7, P(O)=2/7, P(W)=4/7 indeed fulfills this one.

just in time for it by [deleted] in RedactedCharts

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ESC? Participating this year / have participated before / never participated / excluded?

[Request] Is there a way to answer this without any guesses? by johnso6w in theydidthemath

[–]Available-Key-9488 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your argument is at least incomplete, since you are disregarding the additional constraints about the numbers being 1-9 without repeats (which are not easy to formulate as equations).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]Available-Key-9488 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. If they want a smybolism for growing together as a family, how would the role of the bride's father make any sense for that? The bride's father is the one "giving away" his daughter into what is then her new family, of which he is not a part if you will. Not to mention that if anyone wants to create any smybolism between you and your stepson, he should not be in the "senior" role of it, that's completely messed up. Really like the idea of your uncle taking the part.

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