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The minimum number of languages spoken in the school is 10. Suppose that the set of languages spoken in the school {I1, I2, I3,..., I9, I10}. Using the elements of this set, 252 five-element sets can be formed. These 252 sets have the characteristic that if we take any two of them, each will contain one element that the other does not contain. If we take 250 of these sets of languages, and assume that they are, in some order, the languages spoken by the school's 250 students, it can be observed that given any two of these students, A and B, there is a language spoken by A and not spoken by B, and another language spoken by B and not spoken by A. This means that it is possible that only 10 different languages are spoken in the school. In order to prove that it could not have been 9 (or fewer) languages spoken in the school, it is necessary to show thatout of the 512 subsets of a set of 9 elements, once can't find 250 that satisfy the conditions of the problem.

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ok guys my computer is trashed and im at my wits end. Before I contemplate going thru either of these options: __1__ __2__ I want help from you. Symptoms: not really much to go here.. XP WILL NOT BOOT. PERIOD. Not normally, not Safe Mode, not Safe Mode w/ networking, not Safe mode with command prompt, and not LKGC. ALSO: After inserting the XP disk and attempting to repair/install it, it will not recognize the hard drive, so that prevents me from getting onto the hard drive using the XP disk. Thirdly.... the stop error i get is: 0x00000007B ( i tried a different XP install disk not sure how old, and i got 0x00000007E... i think this is irrelevant, maybe an error on the CD) HOWEVER: figuring the Hard Drive was the cause of all of this, I ran my computers internal Hard Drive Diagnostics, and it passed. googling the ERROR however, says that some piece of hardware is having a problem. I'm thinking maybe the hard drive needs to be reseated, but that doesnt explain how the hard drive diagnostics could pass and read the hard drive... What I've Tried: repair using XP OEM CD install using XP OEM CD trying to boot an XP Boot disk What I would prefer NOT to do: New hard drive (because it says it's good, and i got it 8 months ago) Any ideas?

No... (i'll post the answer and explanation in about an hour or so if you still cant get it)

An international school has 250 students, each of whom speaks several languages. For any pair of students, say A and B, there is one language that A speaks that B doesn't and another language that B speaks but A doesn't. What is the minimum number of different languages spoken in the school?

nope... What is the MINIMUM number of languages spoken

+1 cham

Fine w/e... sama you got that one... anyways these two still havent been solved: The Football Fans (solved) Thirty (30) fans hire a bus to attend a football game. On the way to the stadium they realize that exactly half of them are fans of one team and the other half are fans of the other team. With still some way to go before reaching the stadium, the bus develops mechanical problems and the driver announces to his passengers that the only way to continue the journey is for half of them to get out and walk.There is a huge fight that doesn't stop until the driver speaks to them again and suggests a way of selecting the passengers who are to get off the bus. "All of you," he said, "get into a big circle. When you are ready, beginning at this spot, I'll count nine people clockwise. The ninth person leaves the circle and continues on foot. And so forth until fifteen people have left the circle." Suppose that you are one of the fans. How should you arrange all of the other fans of your team so that none of them will have to walk? (You are Team A , the other fans are Team B ) ___________________________________________________________________ A School in Babel An international school has 250 students, each of whom speaks several languages. For any pair of students, say A and B, there is one language that A speaks that B doesn't and another language that B speaks but A doesn't. What is the minimum number of different languages spoken in the school?

because im going by a book. the book wants the numbers, if it didnt want the numbers, it wouldnt have put in the blanks

Browse to the Application Data folder under your user folder. It should be somewhere in there.

126 x 81 = 10206 (who cares about the numbers to add in the middle of there) Just tried it iteratively... multiplier had to be at least 80 to result in a 10000+ number, and less than 99 to be 2 digits... I need all of the numbers and you are wrong on the football one ______________________________________________________________- A School in Babel An international school has 250 students, each of whom speaks several languages. For any pair of students, say A and B, there is one language that A speaks that B doesn't and another language that B speaks but A doesn't. What is the minimum number of different languages spoken in the school?

Brain good job. And p man good job as well. Explanation of the sequence problem: Starting with the second sequence. each sequence is simply a detailed description of the previous one. So, for example, the second sequence describes the first one: "one one;" that is, 1, 1. The third sequence describes the second: two ones; or 2, 1. The fourth describes the third: one two, one one; or 1, 2, 1, 1. The sequences in turn is described as follows: one one, one two, two ones (1 1 1 2 2 1). The sequence that follows is therefore 312211 since it describes the exact composition of the preceding sequence. All of the above means that, in the series of sequences give, the next sequence is 111312211331121232112221. And then 3113112221232112111312211312113211. ______________________________________________________________________________________________-- An Incomplete Multiplication (solved) Which digits must replace the question marks in the following multiplication in order for the result to be correct? 126 x ?? ----- ??? ???? ----- 1?2?6 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Football Fans Thirty (30) fans hire a bus to attend a football game. On the way to the stadium they realize that exactly half of them are fans of one team and the other half are fans of the other team. With still some way to go before reaching the stadium, the bus develops mechanical problems and the driver announces to his passengers that the only way to continue the journey is for half of them to get out and walk.There is a huge fight that doesn't stop until the driver speaks to them again and suggests a way of selecting the passengers who are to get off the bus. "All of you," he said, "get into a big circle. When you are ready, beginning at this spot, I'll count nine people clockwise. The ninth person leaves the circle and continues on foot. And so forth until fifteen people have left the circle." Suppose that you are one of the fans. How should you arrange all of the other fans of your team so that none of them will have to walk? (You are Team A , the other fans are Team B )

EW? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3yGCE8Tfp4

Some Very Peculiar Sequences Examine carefully the following sequences of numbers: 1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 1113213211 31131211131221 13211311123113112211 ... Although the sequences appear to behave totally at random, in fact, after the first sequence, each sequence is constructed in a precise and methodical way based on the previous one. What is the next sequence? BONUS: What is the sequence after that? _______________________________________________________________________________ Strange Multiplication In the multiplication shown below, the digits have been replaced by letters: different letters represent different digits. The same letters represent the same digits. ABCDE x 4 ----- EDCBA What was the original multiplication?

I don't visit the site a lot.... and im also on a different computer. I think i did install the certificate on my old one. oh well.. don't worry about it then close plz

I really dont think this is a big deal, however i do think it is worth mentioning. When going to forums.minegoboom.com i get: Secure Connection Failed forums.minegoboom.com uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer) just a heads up

That made my day when i first read an article on it. Oh and not to mention who started this swine flu epidemic... pandemic?

That's actually vista feature carried over. And you can run into problems only typing in "note" and hitting enter. if you install another program that starts with note, and it happens to put that at the top of the list, it will open that program. Not much harder/faster to hit WIN+R and enter "notepad"

aww hell, i know this one... they start to make a fractal type of image... i dont know the exact math behind it though... http://www.tkheaven.com/answer.jpg yes i realize its sloppy EDIT: I also have some teasers i was going to throw up too if you dont mind

that's your site?

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why not cut your own out of plastic then use the cables from that and do a little glueing?

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Suring around the web, i came across a game called Dark Orbit. I was wondering if anyone's heard about this game, and if they have, is it any good? http://us.darkorbit.bigpoint.com/

didnt we already have one of these "What's your Rig Spec" topics before? Where did it go?