FoxTrot by Bill Amend for April 30, 2017

okay, math nerds, give me the answers (nice get-rich-quick scheme, Jason… too bad your parents aren’t giving you that amount)

1. 2,808 2. 431 3. 4096 4. 479,001,600 Answer: 0100000

Wrong 1000000

This is out of my league. I am the opposite of a Math Nerd.

Being a math nerd who has taken courses in organic chemistry, I can say with absolute certainty that the math jumble will be MUCH easier.

Add 2 more zeros, at least let the man make $256.00

Shouldn’t that computer scientist be some H-1B offshore from India?

Without knowing the answer to those math questions, and having read Foxtrot long enough to know how geeky Amend is, I’d say 1000000, which is the binary equivalent of 64

1000000

I am a big fan of Jumbles, but not like this.

1. 2,808 = (24 * 117 = 2808)2. 431 (has to start with 1, for final answer. therefore, only choices are 134 and 143, and 134 is not prime)3. 4096 (16 cubed is 4096. zero has to be in 2nd position)4. 479,001,600 (just keep multiplying)

Answer: 1,000,000 is the $64 check in binary

I found that one easier than the word jumbles…

There only 10 kinds of people in the world; those who understand binary & those who don’t……..

Oh man, do I remember the “Jason’s Jumbles.” I think these are the only other two.

http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2005/07/03

http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2005/08/07

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He can request the check any way he wants it, but Payroll will still write it for $64.

Thanks Bill. I liked it. Well, I made short work of the first and third question using a basic calculator. For the second question I pulled up a prime number program I wrote in BASIC in the ‘80s. For the readers, the ONLY permutation of those numbers that is a prime is 431, and that provides the “1” in the answer (which I figured out first). So that meant the final question has zeros in the circles. Back to BASIC for more programming fun… There are actually a bunch of values that are divisible by 12 that have zeros in those places, the lowest being 146007900 (which is 12 × 12167325). That’ll be $1M, please.

I actually understood the entity of a Jason Fox math creation.

Suddenly, I’m wondering if I should re-think my life.

I want the organic chemistry one!!!

Jason’s Jumble has returned!