{"id":26689,"date":"2023-05-31T08:40:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=26689"},"modified":"2023-05-31T08:40:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T13:40:30","slug":"wednesday-update-2-because-i-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/31\/wednesday-update-2-because-i-forgot\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update #2 (because I forgot)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh yeah… I promised you fine folks the answer to a riddle today.<\/p>\n

I posted it on Sunday. Here it is again:<\/p>\n

There exists a system, and you may have such a system in your home, in which<\/em><\/p>\n

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1, 2, and 3 are undervalued<\/em><\/li>\n
4, 5, and 6 are perfectly valued<\/em><\/li>\n
7 is overvalued<\/em><\/li>\n
8 and 9 never had a chance to be perfectly valued<\/em><\/li>\n
0 is only perfectly valued when the system stops working<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I mentioned that I thought of the riddle while lying in bed. That was a clue.<\/p>\n
It’s a digital clock. I was looking at one when I came up with the riddle.<\/p>\n
A digital clock has 7 “legs” it uses to build each digit – 4 vertical, 3 horizontal.<\/p>\n
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The digit 1 uses 2 legs to be built; 2 uses 5 legs; and 3 uses 5 legs. So those digits are undervalued.<\/li>\n
The digit 4 uses 4 legs to be built; 5 uses 5 legs, and 6 uses 6 legs. So those digits are perfectly valued.<\/li>\n
The digit 7 uses 3 legs to be built. So 7 is overvalued.<\/li>\n
Since there are only 7 legs, 8 and 9 never had a chance to be perfectly valued.<\/li>\n
Unplug the clock and 0 legs are displayed – the only time 0 is perfectly valued.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Keep scrolling down for today’s news.<\/p>\n