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Time for a headache How many squares?

#1 Aptorian

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:22 PM

How many squares are there in this picture?

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Number of downloads: 8

EDIT: Before some smartypants points it out, no they're not quite perfect squares. I cropped it out of an even bigger grid.

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:25 PM

lots

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And I want to state that Ment has out-weaseled me by far in this game.

#3 Sir Thursday

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:25 PM

819. Unless they're all not quite squares in which case zero.

EDIT: I think Apt's edit was after my post...

Unless I missed it the first time around.

This post has been edited by Sir Thursday: 16 February 2009 - 09:31 PM

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#4 Thelomen Toblerone

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:28 PM

Im going to go with STd, he's a maths person so will probably know. So what he said.

#5 Grief

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:42 PM

I made it 235, but i'm probably well wrong.

Cougar said:

Grief, FFS will you do something with your sig, it's bloody awful

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Grief is right (until we abolish capitalism).

#6 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:45 PM

I count 5 so far, and I'm the sixth.

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Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#7 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:52 PM

Someone tell me why it isn't 13 x 13!

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#8 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:53 PM

Because you can make another square with 4 individual squares, and so forth...

#9 Mezla PigDog

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:54 PM

HoosierDaddy, on Feb 16 2009, 04:53 PM, said:

Because you can make another square with 4 individual squares, and so forth...

Good point, well made. An example of why I am seriously rubbish at all kind of puzzles!

Burn rubber =/= warp speed

#10 Aptorian

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 09:56 PM

Hence the begining of a headache.

#11 Sir Thursday

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Posted 16 February 2009 - 10:05 PM

Well, you can do 13x13 single squares, 12x12 with 4 squares, 11x11 with 9 squares and so on, and if you sum the squares from 1 to 13 you get 819. Hence my answer.

Perhaps a headache is the collective noun for squares?

Don't look now, but I think there's something weird attached to the bottom of my posts.