: This one came this morning while waiting the elevator down. : : Complete the sequence: 11, 10, 7, 0, 7, X : In other words what is the value of X? BIG Hint ... it's 6 on a seven-segment display with the middle segment not working. SPOILER: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From - Thu Jan 22 10:13:41 1998 From: Christ van Willegen Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Subject: Re: An easy one [Spoiler] Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 08:27:32 +0100 Organization: Telebyte [Snip] [Snip] [Snip] > Could you explain this? I'll do that for him :-) The seven segements on an LCD screen look like this: --- | | --- | | --- Now, the elevator descended through floors 11 - 6. Normally, this looks like: --- --- --- --- --- | | | | | | | | | | | | --- --- --- | | | | | | | | | | | --- --- --- With the middle segment out of order, this looks like: --- --- --- --- --- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | --- --- --- (Translated to what you 'see': 11 10 7 0 7 G. Note that the Dutch LCD numbers look different than these! I found that out in this puzzle. In Dutch, the numbers look like: +---+ | ----+ ----+ | | +---- +---- ----+ +---+ +---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+ ----+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | +---+ +---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+ | +---- ----+ | ----+ +---+ | +---+ ----+ Note that the 7 has no descending line at the left, and the fact that the 9 has a horiz. line in the bottom. Incidentally, this is also the way ppl. would write numbers in Dutch (which also differs from the English and American way of writing them) ObStory: I once was in a bus that had about 4 segments missing in its clock. That way, it becomes VERY hard to tell the time, and which ones are missing :-) Christ van Willegen -- Sorry, I had to change my address to stop SPAM. Please delete the initials from my name to reply.