A Rope For Nothing

[Wacky]

Originally Posted by koal

Another question to all of you: that kind of puzzle had nothing to do with primes or factorizing or other stuff discussed here. Did anyone notice that? Is it okay to be that "off-topic" ?

Personally, I don't consider any puzzle related to "math" to be off topic.

I think that this was a very good contribution, and quite "on topic". Feel free to post a few more.


PS: Let me remind everyone that they should not give away the answer too soon. Please give everyone a chance to think about it a little before giving it all away.

[tom11784]

Originally Posted by Jwb52z

Remember, a real yard is not 33 inches. It is 39 inches. So for every yard, he's actually cheating his customer by giving them 6 inches too few.

Yard is 36, meter is ~39.37

[nomadicus]

Originally Posted by tom11784

Yard is 36, meter is ~39.37

Details, details. So what if he typed in the 9 in 39 upside down?
Ahhh, doesn't explain the "6 inches too few" unless his keyboard adds 3 to whatever number he types.