Comments on Puzzle #3401: The secret to the universe?
By Ed Donahue (edzoid)
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version: 2 quality: 
difficulty: 
solvability: line & color logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
version: 2 quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
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#1: Jan Young (haidapup) on Sep 30, 2008
perhaps not hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?#2: Sylvain "WCPman" (qwerty) on Sep 30, 2008
my head hurt real bad now...jk#3: Ga Hendrick (GaHendrick) on Sep 30, 2008
My initial guess was Einstein's famous equation but I could not figure out why it would have the red coloration. A brain teaser within a puzzle to be sure. Thanks.#4: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Sep 30, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Ed Donahue (edzoid) on Oct 1, 2008
0 and 1 are numbers used in mathematical identities: a + 0 = a, a * 1 = a, a/b * b/a = 1, etc. While it's true that any number is technically a constant, 3 is no more particulary special than 4 or 5 or 29.#6: Ed Donahue (edzoid) on Oct 1, 2008
#3, the red is to make the puzzle solveable. In black and white, I couldn't solve it with logic alone. No hidden agendas, sorry.#7: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Oct 1, 2008
Right. I just arbitrarily picked 3 as an example. Yes, it could have been any number.#8: Jen (LightVader) on Oct 1, 2008
I don't know why, but I was reminded of a joke a saw on another website:#9: Craig (thecraig1) on Oct 2, 2008
"There are 10 types of people in the world, those who know binary and those who don't."
;-)
good puzzle, but the actual expression is e^(i*pi) PLUS 1 = 0, not MINUS 1.#10: Ed Donahue (edzoid) on Oct 2, 2008
Perhaps that will make it solvable in b/w??
EGAD!! What an embarrassing mistake! Thanks for the heads-up. The puzzle has now been fixed.#11: Mark Conger (aruba) on Oct 2, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#12: Naomi Millar (sailormewtwo) on Oct 3, 2008 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#13: Ben Fong (darkman) on Feb 1, 2022 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#14: Bananas (Bananas) on Jan 29, 2023
Perhaps "5 major identities"?#15: Bananas (Bananas) on Jan 29, 2023
No, it's not coincidence.#16: Koreen (mom24plus) on Jan 31, 2023
Our mathematical constructs allow us to make sense of what exists. The ants in an anthill did not get out blueprints before they constructed the anthill; they constructed it according to instructions in their genes. We can interpret the shape of the little pile of sand in terms of the physics of gravity, and communicate that to other humans through mathematical language, but the anthill exists with or without our mathematical interpretation.
Well spoken, Bananas. I would point out, though, that math truth exists as well, notwithstanding the use of "imaginary," whether I understand it or not and whether I make use of it or not.
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