24 June 2006, 06:43 UTC#1
24 June 2006, 06:49 UTC#2
It's interesting, but the maths are pretty simple.
When you add the two digits together and subtract them from the original number, the result will always be a multiple of 9. So they just make the same symbol for all those numbers - 9, 18, 27, etc. - and no matter what number you picked, that symbol will be the result.
Then if you do it again, the same numbers are involved but the program changes the symbol to represent them, to make you believe that it's predicting it every time.
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24 June 2006, 06:51 UTC#3
Edit: What he said ^^
24 June 2006, 06:53 UTC#4
That's an easy one.. I got fooled by a similar one a while back.
Any time you add 2 numbers together, you'll only come up with about 12 different totals, then they will make all 12 of those totals the same sign.. It's a math trick : )
I know there may be more totals than just 12, but I was just using 12 as an example.
24 June 2006, 06:57 UTC#5
ahh I now understand

24 June 2006, 17:54 UTC#6
tricky bastards....damn thing scared me, I thoguht I was being watched or somethen
24 June 2006, 19:38 UTC#7
QUOTE(DanG @ Jun 24 2006, 06:57 AM) [snapback]352472[/snapback]
ahh I now understand

24 June 2006, 19:50 UTC#8
Yeah these things use to bug me out too then like they basically said I realised it was jsut a mathematical formula that could work on any number.
25 June 2006, 00:35 UTC#9
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