Families that calculate together, stay together. This is proven out by the extended family of the Bernard’s. This sign is submitted by Road Sign Math first-timer Thomas Brennan, the uncle of Jim (Jr.) Bernard. With this one sign Mr. Brennan will surely start a competition in the Bernard clan. He has deftly avoided the mass chaos and controversy elicited by Jim (Sr.) Bernard’s sign submission which was ultimately determined to be in violation of the rules. He has also handily pounded his fist on the table by ringing in more points with this one sign than his nephew (who now finds himself off of the top 20) has with two signs. Mr. Brennan comes onto the scoreboard in 17th place.
Mr. Brennan has discovered a couple of hidden roots in the solution to this sign.
This sign is located on I-75 in Florida near the intersection with route 52, near Dade City just a mere 28 miles north of Tampa. See sign on map!
5 responses so far ↓
1 frikk // Feb 20, 2006 at 4:34 pm
2 Michal // Mar 6, 2006 at 6:39 am
KNOCK YOUR HEAD WITH BIG, BIG HAMMER!!!!!! THOSE ARE JUST *%#^* COINCIDENCES!!! You can calculate with numbers in any way you want and you will always find even few solutions.
3 Road Sign Math Administrator // Mar 6, 2006 at 6:47 am
4 RanWiz // Mar 26, 2006 at 10:37 pm
RULE SUGGESTION:
A submission may have any formula the submitter chooses - it is assumed they will be complex as possible to increase scoring.
After posted the rest of RSM users (anyone) can try to find a SIMPLER, LOWER SCORING formula for the same sign, which, if correct, forces DOWN the score for that sign.
I have a submission pending using three FACTORIALs in the solution, but there is definately a simpler way to make the sign ‘add up’.
RanWiz –
5 jim bernard (jr) // Mar 26, 2006 at 10:51 pm
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