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(Message started by: alien2 on Jan 12^th, 2017, 4:32am)

Title: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 12^th, 2017, 4:32am

Human adults usually have 32 teeth. Yet it is also true, that these human adults, who never lost any teeth, do not have 32 teeth. But how?

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by Grimbal on Jan 12^th, 2017, 6:46am

Those who keep their teeth in a box for want of a settlement on the issue of what constitutes a fair price for the Tooth Fairy to pay for acquiring said teeth.

Or archaeologists.

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 12^th, 2017, 7:53am

Yeah, right. No intended answer as of yet, Gringo. I myself am Greengo. You know. Little green man.

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by towr on Jan 12^th, 2017, 8:51am

[hide]Could be that unlike most people they have hyperdontia or hypodontia. Some people don't get wisdom teeth anymore, some get extras.[/hide]

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 12^th, 2017, 8:56am

on 01/12/17 at 08:51:24, towr wrote:

[hide]Could be that unlike most people they have hyperdontia or hypodontia.[/hide]

Not these people.

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 12^th, 2017, 10:04am

By [hide]counting their teeth in a different base[/hide]?

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 12^th, 2017, 10:29am

Excuse me. What exactly do you mean by [hide]a different base?[/hide]? What is this? A counter-riddle? Please rephrase because I am a halfwit. And brush your teeth!

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by dudiobugtron on Jan 12^th, 2017, 11:49am

on 01/12/17 at 10:29:39, alien2 wrote:

What exactly do you mean by [hide]a different base?[/hide]?

Those humans have 32 teeth [hide]in decimal (base 10)[/hide] but only 20 [hide]in hexadecimal (base 16)[/hide].

[hide]Counting teeth in base 16 makes sense as well, since there are 16 on each of one's lower and upper jaw.[/hide]

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 12^th, 2017, 12:52pm

Thanks for taking the time to explain. Your answer is pretty lame though.

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by towr on Jan 12^th, 2017, 11:51pm

[hide]If they never lost any teeth, they must still have their baby teeth. If they're adults, they probably don't have them in their mouth. So do they have a full mouth of adult teeth, and a box with their baby teeth?[/hide]

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 13^th, 2017, 12:15am

Not bad. I myself was thinking about[hide] teeth inside the mouth.[/hide]

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 14^th, 2017, 8:23am

Always [hide]look at the big picture.[/hide]

Title: Re: Brush your teeth!
Post by alien2 on Jan 18^th, 2017, 1:48am

Think [hide]Borg collective.[/hide] Perhaps this hint will put you on the right track.