Square One TV: Dirk Niblick - Number Trick

Dirk Niblick teaches his mommy dearest a cool math trick. If your bridge club is meeting this afternoon, take note!

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[TheKaveInn]

where are shows like this today? and we wonder why kids are retarded watching tv trash

[opinionhead444]

And the reason this works is because of the multiples of 99.

Assume 100x + 10y + z the larger three digit number

100z + 10y + x

100x + 10y + z - (100z + 10y + x) = 99(x - z).

Q.E.D.

[bigboss686]

@stevarino1989 Hows it work?



[stevarino1989]

Took me awhile to figure that out but how cool! I don't get how the math universe works but that boggles my mind.

[stevarino1989]

This show must have been extremely low budget because they keep using the same drawing of Dirk in like, every three shots. They just change the way his mouth moves.

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[hemanshera777]

there's gotta be more Dirk Niblik cartoons than this and the one that talks about the graphs

[nrwilliams015]

@ComradeSephiroth here's also something to think about. are u familiar with the 2x-1 rule for determining square roots of the next number, or rather how much to add to get the next number? example: 1 to 4: 2 ( 2) -1=3 1+3=4 or 1^2 to 2^2.

2(3) -1= 5. 3^2 = 9, 4+5 = 9.

2(4) -1= 7. 4^2 =16, 9+7 = 16

2(5) -1= 9 . 5^2= 25, 16+9=25

I think u get the picture.

[nrwilliams015]

@ComradeSephiroth whew! I ain't kno what the fauk u was doing at first, but u basically cancelled a and c. and u were basically using ax2 + bx + c = 0 thing, right!

[nrwilliams015]

@opinionhead444 and it's true with the fact that it's also kin to 9. u can try this with any number (except with 3 dight numbers, the value will be 99 or a number kin to 99 illustrated here) but with any number and subtract its reverse value will give you a multiple of 9.

example: 1801-1081 = 720 (a niner) or 27852-25872 = 180 see what I mean?

[BuckWilliams17]

Even better in my opinion.