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Thanks. I got a semi-mechanical way to generate solutions now. Here is another one, not simpler though:

I got the idea. You freeze the sediment on the bottom. Being lighter than water, the chunks of ice with the sediment will float up by themselves. 🤩

We have 9 numbers, 91/8 each. If we remove any of them, we get 8 equal numbers, which can obviously be arranged into two sets of equal sums. If we add all numbers, we get 9*91/8 = 99/8. If we multiply all numbers, we get (91/8)9 = 99/8. They are equal.

It seems to give 76 equations with 83 unknowns. Should be possible. PS. I assume they ask about a non-trivial solution, i.e., all zeroes.

This - my emphasis - is a narrower subset. You might be right about them, I don't know.

I don't think they forget. Plus, most of these "helpers" didn't act in order to help the "millionaire" to become one. They, mostly, did what they did in order to help themselves and their families.

I agree with your both paragraphs. However, I want to add that in my personal experience, I have met and got to know many non-millionaires who are equally "ruthless, extremely selfish, unsympathetic, greedy, and tight... behind a cloak showing a face of care and compassion." I suspect that both categories are just people.

"self made" = "by one's own actions". It says nothing about the environment in which actions are taken. Particularly, it does not say that are taken in empty space / on a deserted island.

Ah, sure. But I don't think this is what a "self made millionaire" means.

It might be OT, but since you said this several times in different posts, I wonder, why do you say this.

Metaphorically speaking. But technically, is it a TM? We don't know. TM is a mathematical architecture of organization and function. It is independent of physical / chemical / biological implementations. Computers are TM, but it is unknown about the brain. It is an architectural rather than physical / biological question.

And now to something completely different: https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/131507-find-the-numerical-value/ Numeric rather than alpha numeric puzzle.

A connection between your fear to enter that house and that guy electrocuting himself some days later seems quite incidental.

ABC+DEF=GHIJ

This is a great feature. "Billions" of years of people's live time saved.. Just to clarify, I didn't mean that the general feature of autocomplete is pointless. I use it often myself. I was only talking about it being pointless when a new thread title is entered as described in the OP.

I am sorry. Will remember to do it from now on. Thanks.

When my father was ill and his condition deteriorating, I said to my wife one day, "He will die on [my daughter]'s birthday." Several days later, in the morning of that exact day, he did. I always thought of this experience as a combination of extrapolation and coincidence.

I'd donate a toaster or two for the study.

91/8 nine times.

I think this argument can be greatly simplified if we remember that computer, regardless of its "complexity", evolution, or self-evolution, is and will be, a Turing Machine. The argument says that TM can't be sentient.

Another: Four -1's and five 1's. Or: Four 1's and five -1's.

Exactly. That's why I've objected to the statistical argument above,

Nine zeroes will do.

Right. Also, there are no statistics about people feeling things, not saying, and nothing happening.