Oz's Question of the day #32(1/7/09)

[OZXJR]

A high school has a strange principal. On the first day, he has his students perform an odd opening day ceremony:

There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school.
The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it.
Then he has the second student go to every second locker and close it.
The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it.
The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on.
After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?


PM answers please.

 

[tannerplante]

pmed ahhahahhaha

 

[dean owens]

dang! good question. i did a little research and found out the answer i was going to send in was so wrong.

 

[Steph]

Got me! not even gonna attempt this one. I'm on summer holidays!! No math for me!

 

[OZXJR]

i did a little research and found out the answer i was going to send in was so wrong.

C'mon guys,try and work it out without the net :spank:

 

[dean owens]

i did. then i checked my work and found out that i was WAY off.

 

[FizzySix]

...my head hurts...

 

[Coopdman]

So is using Excel cheating too?

 

[Coopdman]

PMed

Excel didn't help me as much as I thought, haha. Good thing I listened to teacher when she said i'd have to use math when I grew up!!

 

[FizzySix]

So is using Excel cheating too?

Let's hope not; I used a combination of vim and Excel to figure it out. It's just a tool, it doesn't give you the answer like the interwebs.

 

[Coopdman]

So, I've only done a couple of these, but how do we know if we get one right?

 

[dean owens]

ozfazer6 will post the winners in this thread. take a gander at the sticky for this section of forum. it helps explain some of it.

 

[Coopdman]

ozfazer6 will post the winners in this thread. take a gander at the sticky for this section of forum. it helps explain some of it.

Thanks! Now to figure out what a "sticky" is, hehe. I'm learning...:stupidpc:

 

[OZXJR]

Answer:31

Rep and casino cash winners:db43 and Gastonj


No other winners.

Congrats guys and thanks to all that played.

Please read the sticky at the top of QOTD,if you win one you have to sit out the next,thanks.

 

[GastonJ]

Excellent ty :thumbup: