I was told there would be no math.

/liberal arts major for a reason

my brain hurts

It is Saturday. My brain is on leave.

/That is all
//nothing to see here
///move along

I completed them all in under 5 minutes...

brewssuds: I completed them all in under 5 minutes...

I finished in 30 seconds.

/finished != solved

I'm not even looking at the page. I got a Rubik's Cube a few months ago for my birthday, and it took me a week to solve the thing, and that was with the help of the "seven easy steps" that you can find online.

I hate the damn thing.

I hit the merge button and it gave me the numbers 8-6-7-5-3-0-9.
So I hit the HELP button and Jenny answered.

I solved the M₁₂ puzzle in about 30 seconds by more or less randomly hitting the Merge button and Invert once or twice.

/Not that hard
//Just lucky

Apparently one of these sporadic groups really is called the McLaughlin Group. And it's not just a joke; it really was discovered by a mathematician named McLaughlin.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/McLaughlinGroup.html

My uncle would love this, should email it to email. Oh my uncle is a mathematician, so math puzzles are something he loves dearly.

WhyteRaven74: email it to email

email it to him, duh

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/ these puzzles are useless without the monster group

head asplode...

FARK assplode...I miss the old days

if i wanted to do math, i'd, like, go to school.

huh?

Easiest puzzle ever. I pushed one button and immediately unscrambled the numbers.



RESET

Is this where we say how fast we did something hard, or did I miss the thread where people talk about turning down requests to join mensa?

I was tinkering with it, but I really don't know what the objective is. Am I supposed to get it back into the same order?

Oh yeah Melvin, how would you do it?

rabidarmadillo24: I was tinkering with it, but I really don't know what the objective is. Am I supposed to get it back into the same order?

yes. Hit reset to show the objective. Hit randomize and begin.

Can someone explain what the hell I'm supposed to be doing.

If you can believe it, I was a finance major, just so I wouldn't have to take calculus.

It's simple only if you can do it in your sleep.

meh

I hit the merge button and it gave me the numbers 8-6-7-5-3-0-9.
So I hit the HELP button and Jenny answered.


Winner

Dude, this is really easy. I solved all of them in under a minute. Which is awesome, because I need to go. I have to be at the particle accelerator in 36 minutes...


/It's by the gym

As someone who wrote a paper on M24 in grad school, I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

I hate algebra.

/Loves analysis.
//That sounds dirty.
///Honey, where did you put that abelian ring?
////Lost it in the commute.

So the first one you just keep clicking merge and invert until it finally randomly lands in the right order?

What am I missing here?

Okay, so I can sort of understand how it works, but I'm too lazy to figure out exactly how to do it. I notice that repeated merging will guarantee that a number will get to a particular position- the problem is it screws up the other stuff. It's easy to get 1 in the first spot and 2 in the second; after that it's pretty damn hard. I suspect it's more like a Rubik's Cube where the goal is to get numbers in a spot that's not their "correct" position then perform a small sequence of moves that gets them into the right spot from there.

I'm just far too lazy to actually work it out.

jaylectricity: So the first one you just keep clicking merge and invert until it finally randomly lands in the right order?

What am I missing here?

No. Merge is described as a shuffle, but it's not a random shuffle.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

After merging, this becomes
1 12 2 11 3 10 4 9 5 8 6 7.
Invert would make this become
7 6 8 5 9 4 10 3 11 2 12 1.

(The term "merge" annoys me because I'm a CS guy and I wanted to be able to pull off MergeSort.)

The goal is to figure out the sequence of moves that fixes it, much like a Rubik's cube.

TheCid: After merging, this becomes
1 12 2 11 3 10 4 9 5 8 6 7.

Oh I thought it was a random shuffle, or at least a more complicated shuffle.

Now I see.

Can someone rehost the dotto one?

Well, I did set a speed record for me opening a Fark link, looking at it, and closing it.

/back to minimizing brainwave activity on a saturday.

jaylectricity
Oh I thought it was a random shuffle, or at least a more complicated shuffle.

Yeah, that threw me a bit, too. I thought it should be something with some order to it (otherwise we'd be playing an online lottery and not a game), but really couldn't muster up enough Care to take a second to figure out what it was.

/has had enough of your games Mr. Math
//initiates the slow descent into a pool of boiling hot pudding

I think you all lie. Especially brewsuds.

you guys just got your asses whipped! by a bunch of god damn nerds

Fapinator: I'm not even looking at the page. I got a Rubik's Cube a few months ago for my birthday, and it took me a week to solve the thing, and that was with the help of the "seven easy steps" that you can find online.

I hate the damn thing.

Rubik's Cube is so 80's.

MERGE (M) is a "card shuffle" best understood by trying it out.
Wtf?! I'm a math student and I have no idea what's going on here!

TheCid: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

After merging, this becomes
1 12 2 11 3 10 4 9 5 8 6 7.
Invert would make this become
7 6 8 5 9 4 10 3 11 2 12 1.

Thank you.

I solved them all in under 30 seconds. It was trivial for someone with a 192 IQ like me.

I'd love to stay and brag about how awesome I am some more, but I'm expecting a call about that VP job offer from Obama. I hate to turn him down, but I'll be busy this next year playing linebacker for the Patriots. After that I'm headed to the gym to break the world bench press record while my girlfriend Jessica Alba cheers me on.

It appears they left out the "sodomize" button.

Single White Male: I solved them all in under 30 seconds. It was trivial for someone with a 192 IQ like me.



Yeah, well, I did it faster than you... in fact, I did them before they were posted here... sooooo... actually, I came up with most of these... in fact, I'm a math genius... so, I'm pretty much better than you at math... soooo....

Single White Male: It was trivial for someone with a 192 IQ like me.

Reading Fark would definitely reduce that number, and taking the time to actually post about it confirms you don't crack 100.

Single White Male: I solved them all in under 30 seconds. It was trivial for someone with a 192 IQ like me.

Blah blah blah...
What's your average on Hot or Not, and how many movies have you been in?

RainingLemur: Single White Male: I solved them all in under 30 seconds. It was trivial for someone with a 192 IQ like me.

Blah blah blah...
What's your average on Hot or Not, and how many movies have you been in?

Quit holding him up, he has to be at the gym in 26 minutes.