Test Your Brain

[Fleet Command CC]

Test Your Brain

This is really cool. This is amazing so please read all the way though.

Count every " F " in the following text:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

HOW MANY ?

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[Fleet Command CC]

Did you get four your WRONG,

READ IT AGAIN !

:confused::confused:

[Ed Rotondaro]

Did you get four your WRONG,

READ IT AGAIN !

:confused::confused:

I got six Fs when I counted.

[old_pop2000]

I have noticed that your F in quotes, is preceeded and followed by a space. In the text, there are no F's preceeded or followed by a space. So, in that sense, the answer is none, because in ASCII, which is what a text processor using a keyboard is actually displaying, a space is a character 20h. However, literally, I see only three F's.

[Warship NWS]

I have noticed that your F in quotes, is preceeded and followed by a space. In the text, there are no F's preceeded or followed by a space. So, in that sense, the answer is none, because in ASCII, which is what a text processor using a keyboard is actually displaying, a space is a character 20h. However, literally, I see only three F's.

And so we get the engineers response... ;)

[old_pop2000]

Eat your heart out! Engineers forever :eek:

[clacton2]

I have noticed that your F in quotes, is preceeded and followed by a space. In the text, there are no F's preceeded or followed by a space. So, in that sense, the answer is none, because in ASCII, which is what a text processor using a keyboard is actually displaying, a space is a character 20h. However, literally, I see only three F's.

Only 3 for me too.
Jon:p

[asnrobert]

I got 6. I bet the one's who only counted 3 didn't count the 'F' located in the word 'of.'

[old_pop2000]

How silly of me! There are six, counting the three "OF". The brain has trouble processing the "OF". Dumb Brain.

[clacton2]

How silly of me! There are six, counting the three "OF". The brain has trouble processing the "OF". Dumb Brain.

Ok, I feel really stupid now!! LOL
Jon:eek:

[old_pop2000]

Interestingly, if you had used a serif font, most of us would have seen the "OF"'s. Example:

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTI
FIC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS...

This is an example of the same text in courier new, which is a serif font. The serif is the tick marks at the end of each letter. They are used in body text to make it easier for your eyes to follow the text. Non-serif fonts are used in headings and titles.

[Fleet Command CC]

I got 6. I bet the one's who only counted 3 didn't count the 'F' located in the word 'of.'

Yep that right.

[Fleet Command CC]

How silly of me! There are six, counting the three "OF". The brain has trouble processing the "OF". Dumb Brain.

Yep it's funny how the brain doesn't see thing sometimes very odd methinks. :D:)

[Fleet Command CC]

Ok, I feel really stupid now!! LOL
Jon:eek:

No don't feel stupid, I did the same went I first seen the text. I had to read it about ten times :confused: before I got it right. Are brain can a bit slow when they want to be. :D

[clacton2]

No don't feel stupid, I did the same went I first seen the text. I had to read it about ten times :confused: before I got it right. Are brain can a bit slow when they want to be. :D

Hi,
Its whats called hiding something in plain sight, but I still feel pretty stupid for not spotting it! LOL
Jon:p

[Kyle Holgate]

I got suspicious and chose to just count F's instead of reading it - and yep, the ol' brain catches the ffff sound and classifies it as an "F" but since we pronounce the F in "of" as a V, brain doesn't count that.
I got 6 of them, largely due to my suspicious nature which has served me wall over the years!

And I'm an engineer too - so there.

[old_pop2000]

I've found that many times we engineering types out think ourselves instead of thinking simply. It's real easy to do. One of the best pieces of advice for my team was to be aware that you can overcomplicate a problem and miss the solution. That's why engineer's work in teams. I have always liked the team concept in solving problems.

[keschofield]

... I have always liked the team concept in solving problems ...

Unfortunately, throughout my career in the corporate world, most of the time I was on teams with managers ..... you know morons! :D As long as the solution fit the right measurement metric, it didn't matter whether it solved the problem or not. :rolleyes:

[old_pop2000]

I've been down that route. The greatest moment in my career was near the end. To go to meetings, listen to the dumb solutions to IT problems and realize " I won't be here when they have to implement this crap." It was a defining moment.

[Kyle Holgate]

I was doing uncle stuff with my 10 year old nephew this last weekend (almost 60 out and sunshine, get it while it lasts). Anyway he had a very hard problem with the ol': "What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead" question. His mom doesn't make him think and I could hear gears grinding as the long unused wheels started to kreek ahead. "So what'd weigh more, a thousand pound elephant or a thousand pound bird" he asks. Obviously neither I said. I started to smell smoke in the air at this point as the gears were getting up to speed.
Ok, try this then, I said. What is longer, a foot piece of licorice or a foot piece of rope? At this the light bulb went off nearly blinding me.

[Fleet Command CC]

Eat your heart out! Engineers forever :eek:

When you say Engineer, are you a software Engineer? :)

[old_pop2000]

No. I am not a designer of software, more of an electronics engineering type, also a system's administrator. I have been retired for six years, so those days are past.