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(Message started by: Grimbal on Oct 12^th, 2012, 7:40am)

Title: Squaring the circle
Post by Grimbal on Oct 12^th, 2012, 7:40am

Yesterday it was square, today it is round. How old am I?

PS: and it is not triangular.

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by towr on Oct 12^th, 2012, 7:54am

[hide]50? 10's probably a bit young, though 50's a bit higher than I'd have guessed[/hide] :P

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by Grimbal on Oct 12^th, 2012, 8:05am

And yet... :-/

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by towr on Oct 12^th, 2012, 11:59am

Well, in any case, Happy Birthday!

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by Noke Lieu on Oct 12^th, 2012, 6:46pm

Indeed!

Recently I sadly missed my pi^pi birthday. Mostly, because I didn't think of it at the time...

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by JohanC on Oct 13^th, 2012, 5:29am

Bonne anniversaire!

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by Grimbal on Oct 15^th, 2012, 12:20am

Thank you and merci!

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by rmsgrey on Oct 15^th, 2012, 4:49am

I was thinking 65 (male retirement age here in the UK)

Though surely squaring the circle should refer to turning 81?

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by benmartorano on Oct 15^th, 2012, 11:45pm

45 years old?

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by Grimbal on Oct 16^th, 2012, 1:21am

on 10/15/12 at 04:49:45, rmsgrey wrote:

Though surely squaring the circle should refer to turning 81?

I have to admit, it was bothering me too. It is the wrong way round. But I didn't want to wait that long.

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by peoplepower on Oct 16^th, 2012, 5:07am

Perhaps when you're eighty-one, a thread bump would be warranted in this case.

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by towr on Oct 16^th, 2012, 8:49am

So this is more "circling the square", but that'd make you sound like some kind of predator..

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by Aryabhatta on Oct 17^th, 2012, 9:28am

Belated happy birthday! Nice puzzle :)

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by alien2 on Oct 17^th, 2012, 9:58am

You're only as old as you feel.

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by davidgaffer on Oct 19^th, 2012, 10:37am

Now your age is Triangle hahha, Belated happy birthday.

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by benmartorano on Oct 22^nd, 2012, 4:16pm

on 10/16/12 at 05:07:48, peoplepower wrote:

Perhaps when you're eighty-one, a thread bump would be warranted in this case.

literally lol

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by Grimbal on Oct 24^th, 2012, 9:52am

on 10/19/12 at 10:37:57, davidgaffer wrote:

Now your age is Triangle hahha, Belated happy birthday.

Do I really sound like it was square, now it is round and also triangular?

No. It was square, it is round, but not triangular.

In fact, thank you. You removed an ambiguity in the same spirit as the original riddle.

Title: Re: Squaring the circle
Post by pfeinstein on Nov 7^th, 2012, 7:00am

[hide]50[/hide]?