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Ten seconds of math

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Re: Ten seconds of math

#12

Post by jhonnycano »

The number limit should be more granular, or even it would be nice to be able to "pin" one number... i'm thinking of studying times tables for my children! other than that, very nice

Re: Ten seconds of math

#13

Post by minikites »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #5

When I was near the end, I pressed backspace to clear my answer, and it wound up navigating me back to HN, wiping out my results. (I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off?) This mental math exercise is a cool and fun concept! Good execution.

You can in Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by Rambition »

jhonnycano wrote: post #12

The number limit should be more granular, or even it would be nice to be able to "pin" one number... i'm thinking of studying times tables for my children! other than that, very nice

Agreed, great tool, would love to be able to set for my kids to focus on certain times tables. Really cool.

Re: Ten seconds of math

#15

Post by Fishkins »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #5

When I was near the end, I pressed backspace to clear my answer, and it wound up navigating me back to HN, wiping out my results. (I hate backspace-to-go-back. It's the worst feature in a browser. Is there a way to turn it off?) This mental math exercise is a cool and fun concept! Good execution.

In Chrome I think you can only do this with an extension. I use BackStop.

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by danbruc »

For me there is a set of calculations I can do without thinking and there is a set where it takes several seconds to figure the solution out. No smooth transition. Is it the same for you? If yes, this would make tuning this game pretty hard because it is either to easy or to hard.

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by dojo999 »

Brashman wrote: post #11

Does it speed up or end eventually? I stored up 150 seconds left before I decided to quit (score of 2529).

For a moment I had the idea it was speeding up, but later on I felt like it was just an illusion. Got to 5661 before stopping.

Re: Ten seconds of math

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Post by skellystudios »

Just for anyone who feels pleased with their mental maths and thinks they might be able to take on their calculator head-to-head:

window.setInterval(function(){$('#question-answer').val(eval($('#question').html().replace("×","").replace("÷","/").replace(/(.)²/,"Math.pow($1,2)").replace(/√(.*)/,"Math.sqrt($1)"))).trigger("keyup")},10)

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