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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Beheadings Are So 1700s
How will you behead sixty eight and leave eighteen?
I was beginning to think I had stumped you all when you came up with the answer reallyfatbloke. Take away L from LXVIII (68) and you end up with XVIII (18).
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take 50?
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This works in roman numerals if you 'behead' the number by removing the first digit.
ReplyDeleteLXVIII is 68, behead it by removing the L and that leaves XVIII or 18
I was beginning to think I had stumped you all when you came up with the answer reallyfatbloke. Take away L from LXVIII (68) and you end up with XVIII (18).
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