Puzzle Description:

Possible or not? :) My favourite problem in math: Try derivate f(x)=sin(1/x) at x=+0. If it's too difficult, guess its signal is positive or negative... :)

#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Jul 23, 2013

Found to require lots of guessing by infrapinklizzard.

The question isn't this bad puzzle. The question what I call "Crazy Function" or "Penalty to Gödel".

I guessed the correct solution on the FIRST TRY! How many solutions are there to this puzzle? At first I was thinking it is 25x16x9x4x1=14400 since there are 25 square to place the first pixel and 16 remaining squares for the second etc. But that has repeating solutions as if the order you place them is important. For any given solution there are 5! ways to place the pixels or 5x4x3x2x1=120. So there should be 14400/120=120 solutions.

120 different solutions can be, but this isn't sure... I count waves, that is much more! :))

To use your own words, this is a shit puzzle. If you're going to try to stump us with math problems, at least make a puzzle that's solvable by logic, with a unique solution.

Thx Kristen. Yes it's a piece of shit.
It's a mathematical JOKE at all. This is an unsolvable enigma, that is an unanswerable problem. As like Kurt Gödel's famous thesis...
Pls help me and count local extremas of sin (1/x) in 0<x<0,001 interval! It's much more than number of solutions of this shit puzzle :)

120 solutions by my logic.

There is no your logic or my logic. Only one logic.

120 solutions by my probabilistic permutation logic.

Someone could make a 50x60 grid with all 120 solutions. Each row could have ten 1's and each column could have twelve!

For those who just want this off their unsolved list, it’s a diagonal. You now have a 50/50 shot.

your a nerd, dummy

Typically, nerd and dummy don't go together in the same sentence. I'm going to let McDonald choose for him or herself which one they get to apply for making such an informed comment.

I think many of us on this site are nerds of one form or another...it's kinda why we're drawn here. And, yes, that's the first time I ever heard nerd and dummy attributed to the same person, lol. Nice catch, Byrdie!

Thanks Koreen! I thought it was rather clever myself.

And you're probably right, the nerd term *probably fits most of us. Band nerd, math nerd, computer nerd, book nerd. All of them probably require some reasonable intelligence. The label "dummy" hardly applies.

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