Millionaire 2016-17 Season Discussion [SPOILERS]

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MarkBarrett wrote:
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$50,000
Though it might be difficult to operate, if the iPod Nano actually measured a nanometer across, it would be how wide?
A: 1 thousandth of a meter
B: 1 millionth of a meter
C: 1 billionth of a meter
D: 1 trillionth of a meter
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During this week the players get a 4th lifeline to Cut the question and have it replaced with another one of the same value. That is what Josh did. The correct answer was: C: 1 billionth of a meter
I wonder whether this decision reflected
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ignorance of what the "nano" prefix means
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a misunderstanding of the question as requiring knowledge of the iPod Nano's proportions.
If the latter,
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he could/should have realized that no iPod has proportions of 1:1,000 or 1:1,000,000. I'm going to assume he just didn't know what "nano" meant.
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IronNeck wrote:Amusingly, the question he skipped (which simply required knowing what the prefix nano meant, very commonly used in science) was probably the easiest and quickest one.
How often were you exposed to 'nano-' by age 13, though?
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Volante wrote:
IronNeck wrote:Amusingly, the question he skipped (which simply required knowing what the prefix nano meant, very commonly used in science) was probably the easiest and quickest one.
How often were you exposed to 'nano-' by age 13, though?
I'd heard of a nanosecond (and what it meant) before my age was double digits.
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seaborgium wrote:
MarkBarrett wrote:
Spoiler
$50,000
Though it might be difficult to operate, if the iPod Nano actually measured a nanometer across, it would be how wide?
A: 1 thousandth of a meter
B: 1 millionth of a meter
C: 1 billionth of a meter
D: 1 trillionth of a meter
Next:
Spoiler
During this week the players get a 4th lifeline to Cut the question and have it replaced with another one of the same value. That is what Josh did. The correct answer was: C: 1 billionth of a meter
I wonder whether this decision reflected
Spoiler
ignorance of what the "nano" prefix means
, or
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a misunderstanding of the question as requiring knowledge of the iPod Nano's proportions.
If the latter,
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he could/should have realized that no iPod has proportions of 1:1,000 or 1:1,000,000. I'm going to assume he just didn't know what "nano" meant.
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I agree. It took me a couple re-reads to work out that "measured...across" and "how wide" were synonyms. From there it was easy.
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Volante wrote:
IronNeck wrote:Amusingly, the question he skipped (which simply required knowing what the prefix nano meant, very commonly used in science) was probably the easiest and quickest one.
How often were you exposed to 'nano-' by age 13, though?
I was probably 8 or 9 by the time I learned that "nano" was 10^-9. That's besides the point, though.

The 13 year-old on the show knew or reasoned out far more difficult questions that I would NOT have gotten at either 13 or even 23. He has played very well. So in that sense it's amusing that he skipped what was the easiest one of the lot.
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The 2/16 show opened with Josh Darrow returning to see this question:
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$250,000 and no lifelines remaining
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Josh did not want to risk a guess even though he felt he could eliminate Denmark and Norway as being Scandinavian and too north. He walked with his $100,000 although of course Chris had him make a guess for fun. Josh said, "Netherlands" and would have been correct.
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Uma Upamaka began play and did not use a lifeline until the $10,000 question.

In order to boast that their age is a prime number, a math-loving nonagenarian must be how old?
A: 91
B: 93
C: 97
D: 99
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Uma did not know and would not/did not/could not figure it out, so used the CUT lifeline to play a new question. The correct answer was of course C: 97 and that was the one she thought it was not.
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I've added these extra lines just to make it less obvious that Josh walked on the first question he saw. Uma knew the replacement Q for 10K and got the 20K one after using her 50:50 so she will return tomorrow with two lifelines remaining.
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MarkBarrett wrote:The 2/16 show opened with Josh Darrow returning to see this question:
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$250,000 and no lifelines remaining
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Next:
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Josh did not want to risk a guess even though he felt he could eliminate Denmark and Norway as being Scandinavian and too north. He walked with his $100,000 although of course Chris had him make a guess for fun. Josh said, "Netherlands" and would have been correct.
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Given the show's aversion to parting with prize money, I'm surprised the $250k clue ended up being reasonable. (I knew it cold) I was rooting for Josh to win a huge sum, too. Oh well, $100k is still an excellent haul, and very rare nowadays.

Also, I was probably much worse at trivia than Uma when I was in junior high, but I would have gotten that prime number question when I was 8 years old, let alone 13-14. That's because it's not trivia.
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Seriously. Leiden was an instaget. I would have doubled over laughing if I saw that as a $250K.
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I've taken notice both kids weeks have been really heavy on the math questions
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triviawayne wrote:I've taken notice both kids weeks have been really heavy on the math questions
Indeed. I suppose the contestant test selects for that. And speaking of which:
MarkBarrett wrote:
Next:
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Uma Upamaka began play and did not use a lifeline until the $10,000 question.

In order to boast that their age is a prime number, a math-loving nonagenarian must be how old?
A: 91
B: 93
C: 97
D: 99
Next:
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Uma did not know and would not/did not/could not figure it out, so used the CUT lifeline to play a new question. The correct answer was of course C: 97 and that was the one she thought it was not.
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93 and 99 I can cast out threes to quickly see they aren't prime, but what's the quick way to know that 91 isn't? Maybe (49x2)-7? Is there a trickier way?
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MinnesotaMyron wrote:
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93 and 99 I can cast out threes to quickly see they aren't prime, but what's the quick way to know that 91 isn't? Maybe (49x2)-7? Is there a trickier way?
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Threes are obvious, fives are obvious, next step is to divide by 7. Done.

Not real hard regardless of age to divide by all odd numbers until reaching the halfway point. But perhaps that's not the obvious way to solve this simply?
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Golf wrote:
MinnesotaMyron wrote:
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93 and 99 I can cast out threes to quickly see they aren't prime, but what's the quick way to know that 91 isn't? Maybe (49x2)-7? Is there a trickier way?
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Threes are obvious, fives are obvious, next step is to divide by 7. Done.

Not real hard regardless of age to divide by all odd numbers until reaching the halfway point. But perhaps that's not the obvious way to solve this simply?
That's it. Odds can't have an even factor, so work your way up the odds like you said.
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Golf wrote:
MinnesotaMyron wrote:
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93 and 99 I can cast out threes to quickly see they aren't prime, but what's the quick way to know that 91 isn't? Maybe (49x2)-7? Is there a trickier way?
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Threes are obvious, fives are obvious, next step is to divide by 7. Done.

Not real hard regardless of age to divide by all odd numbers until reaching the halfway point. But perhaps that's not the obvious way to solve this simply?
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Your method is fine. You only need to test numbers (at most) up to the whole square root of the number. That would mean up to 9 in this case, which is divisible by 3, which was already tested. So 7 is literally the last prime divisor one has to look at. And voila, 13*7= 91
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It is made easier as it obviously isn't divisible by 3 or 5.
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IronNeck wrote:
Golf wrote:
MinnesotaMyron wrote:
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93 and 99 I can cast out threes to quickly see they aren't prime, but what's the quick way to know that 91 isn't? Maybe (49x2)-7? Is there a trickier way?
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Threes are obvious, fives are obvious, next step is to divide by 7. Done.

Not real hard regardless of age to divide by all odd numbers until reaching the halfway point. But perhaps that's not the obvious way to solve this simply?
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Your method is fine. You only need to test numbers (at most) up to the whole square root of the number. That would mean up to 9 in this case, which is divisible by 3, which was already tested. So 7 is literally the last prime divisor one has to look at. And voila, 13*7= 91
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Golf wrote:
MinnesotaMyron wrote:
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93 and 99 I can cast out threes to quickly see they aren't prime, but what's the quick way to know that 91 isn't? Maybe (49x2)-7? Is there a trickier way?
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Threes are obvious, fives are obvious, next step is to divide by 7. Done.

Not real hard regardless of age to divide by all odd numbers until reaching the halfway point. But perhaps that's not the obvious way to solve this simply?
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You don't even have to get to the halfway point – just to the "square root" point.
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Uma Upamaka returned on the 2/17 show and faced this question:
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$30,000
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She left with $5,000 and her +1 unused. Yeah, thanks a lot audience.
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never ask the audience about geography. americans don't know shit about geography.
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Yikes. And I thought I was bad at geography. (Knew that one, though, and any adult should immediately be able to disqualify A and D)

Do you think some of the audience members might have been messing with her, though?
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Unless she did something to piss everyone off, I can't imagine why.
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