Maths Question:

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  1. Gue

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    Amen

    Esp if involving twins or a mother/daughter combo.</p>

    And '3' seems to be the number of English pounds too much for a Man Utd ticket. Awooga.
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  2. Farnham_Red

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    Isnt it Z by that logic

    And my first thought when I saw the "right" answer was F like you posted

    Then I thought what if you use number base 36?

    It could be even higher if you use a higher number base but I dont know if anyone ever defined figures I can see some encoding techniques for base 64 but dont know how you represent for example 63 in this format

    By the way the answer isnt infinity either as mathematicians will tell you that infinity to the power of 2 is a different number to infinity

    I dont think there is a correct answer to the original question
     
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  3. Sopwith Camel

    Sopwith Camel Well-Known Member

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    Int that where

    you use number 0-9 and then lettrs A-F to repersent numbers, because by definition you've ran out of numbers. There are still only 9 numbers
     
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  4. Farnham_Red

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    What about roman numerals

    I II III IV V etc which definitely have a C and an M at least - and as they predate our ABC etc you cant claim that M is a letter not a number
     
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    What about imaginary numbers ;-) nt
     
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