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RickG

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It will work with any starting number, provided that you adjust the addition factor. You do this by adding 50 to the difference between 66 and your starting number. You may be adding in negative numbers, so you have to keep track of your signs. Here are 2 examples. My age is now 65. I was born in 1951 (the result will be 51.)

I. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, so we'll start there.

1. Subtracting my age: 154 - 65 = 89

2. Find the addition factor: 66 - 154 = -88. Add this to 50 = -38.

3. Add this to the result from line 1.: 89 + (-38) = 51.


II. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, so now we'll use that.

4. Subtracting my age: 37 - 65 = -28.

5. Find the addition factor: 66 - 37 = 29. Add this to 50 = 79.

6. Add this to the result from line 4.: (-28) + 79 = 51.

How about that? Shakespeare knows when I was born!
Cool.
 
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My birthday is in November.

Too bad, this nice trick didn't work for me. Was better to be posted on Dec 31 or something if worded this way.

For this trick to always work, the task must be, "substract the age you turned or will turn this year from 66", the rest is same.

Age = 2016 - YOB
66 - Age = 66 - (2016 - YOB) = YOB - 1950
50 + YOB - 1950 = YOB - 1900.

Easy arithmetics. Nice, I enjoyed it, thank you.
 
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Guess we'll have to adjust the formula every year. :)
How? 51 is such a "not nice" number, for the non-mathematicians this thing would fool, and you really can't add just one more book to the canon of Scripture.
 
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