Off Topic: Puzzle
Jim Hurley
jhurley at infostations.com
Sat May 17 13:48:01 EDT 2003
I thought RunRev fans would enjoy the recent Car Talk puzzle. (Car
Talk is a popular American Saturday Public Radio program in the US.)
It is particularly suited to XTalk which treats numbers as text or
numbers depending on the context.
The local bank outdoor thermometer reports the temperature digitally
in both Celcius and Fahrenheit. One morning a driver noticed the
centigrade (Celsius) digital temperature reading on the bank
thermometer was just the reverse of the Fahrenheit digital
temperature reading.
Driving by the bank later in the afternoon, when the weather had
cleared and warmed up, he noticed that the temperatures were higher
but once again the digits of the Centigrade and Fahrenheit readings
were reversed.
What were the two temperatures?
In case you have forgotten: tc = 5/9*(tf - 32)
Jim
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