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Dragonfire Moderator

Assuming the numbers are base-6, now, kinda.
Kim Topic Starter Site Admin

*golf announcer voice* Dragonfire is going to need complete silence as she maths this math...
Dragonfire Moderator

So that leaves the other sum as 23 * 7 + 3 or 7 * 23 + 3 or 3 * 23 + 7. I think. Assuming numbers are right.
rat

or a WWE announcer voice.
"OOH that's gotta hurt!"
Tar

I've played around with the math myself but I need to figure out where this equation was seen before first. I don't feel I have enough to work off of yet, but I'm pretty sure a sum is addition only so it is only those two numbers added together in the first parentheses that add up to 75.
Sanne Moderator

Do we use PEMDAS for this?
Sanne Moderator

Oh wait it's setup that way anyway
Dragonfire Moderator

230 * 75 or 182 * 75 or 90 * 75.

BEDMAS is in effect, I'd guess.
Dragonfire Moderator

17250 or 13650 or 6750. But a step beyond that...
Dragonfire Moderator

Any of those + 1?
Dragonfire Moderator

For the data points we've seen before, Tailbone, I used the three clear faces of the die star in the comic, and the three clear faces in the first video.
Dragonfire Moderator

The lines in the comic are easy to miss, but they're clearly there.
Dragonfire Moderator

The die star may also be a d23, if my guess of base 6 is correct.
Kim Topic Starter Site Admin

The full size version of the comic is probably easier to work with than the site-size one
Dragonfire Moderator

Which would give us some other numbers somewhere.
Dragonfire Moderator

Yes, for sure.
Dragonfire Moderator

Anywhoo! That was one math interlude. Back to work!
Dragonfire Moderator

Additionally: if this problem was postulated by a Brit (which I suspect it was!), 'sum' may refer to more than just addition.
Ilmarinen Moderator

As a real quick heads up, 15 * 13 - 8 isn't 75! There are no parentheses within the outer pair
Dragonfire Moderator

...Oh, shoot! LOL.

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