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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (31580)	4/15/2020 1:22:11 PM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32917

The Java Dumper Bandit or TED Privatemessages Well Jeff, it is time to put your shoes on the other feet. The real math is in and it isn't pretty, you may not realize this but the scope of the problem and the range of answers has really accelerated overnight and the models are wrong. I was going to release a TED Talks but if it is already on TED Privatemessages I won't bother. How should we respond to this problem? Can we help each other out and perhaps get our answers while we are all in isolation. I have some updates on the real math, not the fake math, this is the real decoy. I really prefer full bushel baskets of answers when I do math. This is just the first part, focusing on the shoes. You can check the math with any calculator. So we throw out the orange herrings and the 30/6=5 and replace it with math that takes into account we all have a left and a right shoe so 3a+3b=30. 3a + 3b = 30 3a=30-3b 3a=30-2b-b 3a/3=30/3+2b/3+b/3 a=10-2b-b/3 so if solution t=b/3 then b=3t so a=10-6t-t=30-7t then a=10-7t and b=3t, and this is a set of linear coordinates, not a pair. This solution is like getting home from Aldo and finding that the boots you bought are a size 9 1/2 right and a 10 left, someone else has the other half of your pair. This is liquid math and if you are wondering what happens to all the t don't worry, it will get consumed. This solution only gets more complicated. I spoke to Ell and Arr, the two ghosts in orange robes who are pictured in the equation. They explained that they have been starved and kept out of the sun for months so that they would look properly enigmatic and they advised their resemblance to cannoncini or a tiny relay baton was intended. They also confided that the two people who posed for the graphic were SI Ron (Soup Nazi) and Cheeky Kid. I asked about the logo on the shirts but they just looked away. On closer examination there is a distinct possibility that it might not read... PLUCK YOUR CHICKENS but might actually say HOARD SOME CHARMIN in which case we are all good I think. It really is a lot clearer at 250% zoom

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (31580)	4/15/2020 6:16:27 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32917

We actually had one more winner in TEDennis, though via PM. Like you, he had many different answers depending on this or that. It took me a while to pin him down to what he thought should not could be the right answer. my initial thought was that this (?) was this (7) which woulda made the answer 70 so NOW we'd have three answers... 1) woulda = 70 2) coulda = 63 plus ? 3) shoulda = 106 if we add those three together and divide by three we have an "average" answer of 79.666666(ad infinitum) plus (? ÷ 3) (which you certainly wouldn't get from elpolvo or Graystone or TEDennis because they're far from "average" mathematicians.) since i already have one of the blue Silicon Investor T-shirts i'm willing to withdraw my "coulda" answer from consideration. this makes the new "average" answer 88 - creating a tie between Kitskid (83) and longz (93) who only missed the "average" answer of woulda and shoulda by 5. but... i could be wrong... please check my math (and my latin)