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Title: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Lion on 2010-06-12 20:25:00
This math test can predict your all-time most-watched film. (it works)

Mine was Star Wars (it's TRUE!!!)

Try it without looking at the answers.

It's easy and really works:

Pick a number from 1 - 10.

Subtract 1.

Multiply by 3.

Add 3.

Multiply that by 3.

Add the digits together.

Use that number to find your all time favorite movie in the list below.

Your number is:









1. Gone With the Wind.

2. Aliens.

3. Dances with Wolves.

4. Star Wars.

5. Forrest Gump.

6. Saving Private Ryan.

7. Jaws.

8. Doctor Zhivago.

9. The Joy of Anal Sex with Male Goats & Leather Clad Gay Boys.

10. Mary Poppins.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: obesebear on 2010-06-12 20:29:10
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Covarr on 2010-06-12 20:42:27
No Beauty and the Beast, this can't possibly be right.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: jeffdamann on 2010-06-12 20:48:50
LMAO I started with 7 as my number and got this answer.....

9. The Joy of Anal Sex with Male Goats & Leather Clad Gay Boys.  Can't say I remember conciously seeing that one, but who knows...
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: ScottMcTony on 2010-06-12 20:49:21
Well it was pretty close, and I guess it did the best it could've done without David Does Uganda: An Epic Quest of Eating da Poo Poo on the list.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: DarkFang on 2010-06-12 20:50:49
I got number 2 Aliens. I've never even seen that movie.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Hellbringer616 on 2010-06-12 20:51:00
I picked 7 as well. Sorry, i'd have to say this test is false
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: ScottMcTony on 2010-06-12 20:53:08
Btw giving 10 possible results after telling us to pick a number from 1-9 sort of ruins any chance of brief gullibility someone may have had sorry.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Kudistos Megistos on 2010-06-12 20:55:20
Oh f*** you for asking that in a FF7 forum >:(

Also, that isn't my favourite film; the stuff I fap to is as f***ed up as goat sex, but in a very different way ;D
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Lion on 2010-06-12 21:14:06
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.

which number did you pick to end up with private ryan?
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: nikfrozty on 2010-06-12 21:18:23
I got 9 and I assure you I don't even know that movie. Guess the test isn't for me. :-\
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Kudistos Megistos on 2010-06-12 21:29:51
Protip: everyone gets 9. The "math test" is an algorithm that always gives you a multiple of 9, and multiples of 9 below 121 always add up to 9.

Look closely:

Taking away 1, multiplying by 3 and then adding three is the same as multiplying by 3; the 3 that gets added at the end makes up for the 1 that gets subtracted at the start and multiplied by 3. Multiplying the result of this by 3 is the same as multiplying by 9. It would actually be less obvious if the "subtract 1" step were left out, since one would still always end up with two digits that added up to 9 without the two digits making the number that is 9 x whatever you started with). Unless one picked 10. Then it would fuck everything up.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: obesebear on 2010-06-12 22:27:31
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.

which number did you pick to end up with private ryan?
1.7
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: DarkFang on 2010-06-12 22:29:40
Protip: everyone gets 9. The "math test" is an algorithm that always gives you a multiple of 9, and multiples of 9 below 121 always add up to 9.

Look closely:

Taking away 1, multiplying by 3 and then adding three is the same as multiplying by 3; the 3 that gets added at the end makes up for the 1 that gets subtracted at the start and multiplied by 3. Multiplying the result of this by 3 is the same as multiplying by 9. It would actually be less obvious if the "subtract 1" step were left out, since one would still always end up with two digits that added up to 9 without the two digits making the number that is 9 x whatever you started with). Unless one picked 10. Then it would f*** everything up.

You killed it.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: nikfrozty on 2010-06-12 22:31:19
Protip: everyone gets 9. The "math test" is an algorithm that always gives you a multiple of 9, and multiples of 9 below 121 always add up to 9.

Look closely:

Taking away 1, multiplying by 3 and then adding three is the same as multiplying by 3; the 3 that gets added at the end makes up for the 1 that gets subtracted at the start and multiplied by 3. Multiplying the result of this by 3 is the same as multiplying by 9. It would actually be less obvious if the "subtract 1" step were left out, since one would still always end up with two digits that added up to 9 without the two digits making the number that is 9 x whatever you started with). Unless one picked 10. Then it would f*** everything up.
Hmm now I've just messed up my mind thinking about just what you said. :-X
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Matron Orlha the Insane on 2010-06-12 22:31:56
Obvioustip: everyone gets 9. The "math test" is an algorithm that always gives you a multiple of 9, and multiples of 9 below 121 always add up to 9.

fix'd.   :P
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Kudistos Megistos on 2010-06-12 22:33:09
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.

which number did you pick to end up with private ryan?
1.7

(http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_3/toolkit/docs/online/nvidia_logo.jpg)

I didn't pick 1.7 because I'm using an ATI card
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: obesebear on 2010-06-12 22:41:56
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.

which number did you pick to end up with private ryan?
1.7

(http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_3/toolkit/docs/online/nvidia_logo.jpg)

I didn't pick 1.7 because I'm using an ATI card
What is this? I don't even.
Title: Re: Math test that can determine which film is your favourite film ever!!
Post by: Lion on 2010-06-13 00:11:06
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.

which number did you pick to end up with private ryan?
1.7

lol good one =P you got me.
Protip: everyone gets 9. The "math test" is an algorithm that always gives you a multiple of 9, and multiples of 9 below 121 always add up to 9.

Look closely:

Taking away 1, multiplying by 3 and then adding three is the same as multiplying by 3; the 3 that gets added at the end makes up for the 1 that gets subtracted at the start and multiplied by 3. Multiplying the result of this by 3 is the same as multiplying by 9. It would actually be less obvious if the "subtract 1" step were left out, since one would still always end up with two digits that added up to 9 without the two digits making the number that is 9 x whatever you started with). Unless one picked 10. Then it would f*** everything up.

i would pm you to remove this but there is exactly 0% chance that anyone will bother reading this and attempt to understand =P
I got 6.  Not my favorite movie ever, but definitely up there.  Pretty cool.

which number did you pick to end up with private ryan?
1.7

(http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_3/toolkit/docs/online/nvidia_logo.jpg)

I didn't pick 1.7 because I'm using an ATI card

umm what?