• GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’m thinking maybe “Because if you subtract 40 from my number you get a negative number,” but I could be either over- or under-thinking it.

    • scibra122@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      I was guessing either it has fewer digits or the tens digit is less than 4 would be the desired answers depending on what the selected number was, that kind of question feels like it would predate negative numbers on the learning curve