Game of Nerds - This seems up this website's alley

<p>Glad I used a password not linked to any other accounts linked to that email.</p>

<p>Though I think it’s overblowing things; how likely is this to happen?</p>

<p>In polar coordinates, which of the following equations represents the circle with the largest radius?<br>
13 tries 38% correct</p>

<p>Buahahah…
My one trick-ish question is performing well. :p</p>

<p>(x+6)^2 is a _________ function:<br>
50 tries 54% correct</p>

<p>It wasn’t a fluke, how are so many missing this? :S</p>

<p>^^ If it’s fixed soon, almost no chance. If the game goes mainstream, it could be a serious problem. The question is, of the people on that email list, what are the chances that at least one of them would do something? The chances go up as the number of people go up, and with only 400 or so it’s unlikely that one will be a hacker. Also the chances that a hacker would use that list go up as the number of people go up. Who is going to want to try to hack 400 passwords? But change that to 40,000 and people might want to.</p>

<p>^ The polar coordinates question got me once.
As for the other question, not everyone is in the middle of high school math.</p>

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The chances go up the more you talk to a significant amount of them about how easily someone could do this.</p>

<p>What are believed to be the two most common elements found in stars?</p>

<p>Correct answers - 59%</p>

<p>What is the 33rd number in the Fibonacci sequence?</p>

<p>Correct answers - 100%</p>

<p>WTH?</p>

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What is the 33rd number in the Fibonacci sequence?</p>

<p>Correct answers - 100%</p>

<p>That one seriously made me rage.
None of the answers are the 33rd number. I looked it up - [33rd</a> fibonacci number - Wolfram|Alpha](<a href=“33rd fibonacci number]33rd - Wolfram|Alpha”>33rd fibonacci number - Wolfram|Alpha)</p>

<p>I got it wrong when I did it though…hm…</p>

<p>Also: for all the others submitting endless amounts of math questions, I’m thinking its best we not only use questions that can be easily looked up (like the 33rd Fibonacci number :stuck_out_tongue: ), especially in the difficult/almost impossible categories.</p>

<p>0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, 121393, 196418, 317811, 514229, 832040, 1346269, 2178309, 3524578, 5702887, 9227465, 14930352, 24157817, 39088169, no?</p>

<p>It starts at 1, not 0 -_-</p>

<p>EDIT: actually, it seems wikipedia puts it starting at 0… time to research this one a bit…</p>

<p>Several places state the domain of a sequence is natural numbers, but some places include 0 as a natural number, and some other places do not. Well…</p>

<p>When I learned it, it started at 0. It’s just once people start trying to simplify the formula that they have to start it at 1. Fibonacci himself started it at 0.</p>

<p>It seems Fibonacci first considered the mating bunny problem… So he couldn’t have started at 0. Hm, anyone know a math professor we can ask? :p</p>

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Perhaps he was a theist.</p>

<p>God My school sucks.</p>

<p>I don’t even know who Fibonacci IS!!!</p>

<p>:(</p>

<p>So has anyone else noticed the tons of questions that are plain wrong?</p>

<p>“which of these can be found on a Numpad?”</p>

<p>I CHOSE C) " A built in telephone"</p>

<p>A BUILT IN TELEPHONE
A BUILT IN TELEPHONE
A BUILT IN TELEPHONE</p>

<p>GASLFBKJFRBKJAHBFKJHABFKHJWAEFBWKERFBWJHERFWHEJFBJWHEBFJHWBERHJBEWRFKHB
Why do I click before I think?</p>

<p>My attempt at subtly inserting History questions into the Math category failed.</p>

<p>I wish there was a history topic</p>

<p>^
As do I, but I think it may suffer from some things that cause some other categories to be less fun - tons of highly-specific questions.</p>

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I loled.</p>

<p>^I don’t think I ever heard about it in a math class. I did hear about it in all my Comp Sci ones.</p>

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I don’t qualify, but the 0 is included inconsistently from what I’ve seen.</p>

<p>I DID IT!!</p>

<p>I ANSWERED A FINAL QUESTION.</p>

<p>In chemistry too :stuck_out_tongue:
Thank you OTHERWINDOW AND ALMOST THERE</p>

<p>My smartest team mates</p>

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<p>I agree, it’s pretty odd how the correct answers percentage works out. I put in a fairly obscure video game question that has yet to be missed.</p>