Chop off my head and all becomes equal. Then cut me front or back and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started.

What am I?

13 hours ago, Itoero said:

Chop off my head and all In equal. Then cut me front or back and I become second. Cut me front and back and I become two less than I started.

What am I?

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confused or, In several pieces.

36 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

confused or, In several pieces.

Think abstractly.

In such riddles there is often play on words. e.g. "I become second", second might means it's something correlated with time. 1 second, 2 seconds etc.

"chop off my head", "cut me front", "cut me back", might means removing digits from sequence of numbers, or mathematical equation/function (rational function?), from which we are removing some parts.

e.g. function y = a/b "chop off my head" would mean getting rid of "a" variable, which is on the top of equation ("head").

b number could have format e.g. cdefg,

"cut me front or back" -> remove c or g digits.

"cut me front and back" 2nd time -> remove the right digits remaining from previous step.

 

1 hour ago, dimreepr said:

confused or, In several pieces.

or ironic.

 

9 minutes ago, Sensei said:

Think abstractly.

In such riddles there is often play on words. e.g. "I become second", second might means it's something correlated with time. 1 second, 2 seconds etc.

"chop off my head", "cut me frontmore "cut me back", might means removing digits from sequence of numbers, or mathematical equation/function (rational function?), from which we are removing some parts.

e.g. function y = a/b "chop off my head" would mean getting rid of "a" variable, which is on the top of equation ("head").

b number could have format e.g. cdefg,

"cut me front or back" -> remove c or g digits.

"cut me front and back" 2nd time -> remove the right digits remaining from previous step.

 

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It's more a riddle encoded. http://goodriddlesnow.com/riddles/view/2343

26 minutes ago, John Cuthber said:

or ironic.

15 hours ago, Itoero said:

Then cut me front or back and I become second.

 

 

 

Edited January 5, 20197 yr by dimreepr

39 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

It's more a riddle encoded. http://goodriddlesnow.com/riddles/view/2343

Correct, I changed words so you couldn't google it...but I was wrong.