A hundred and one by fifty divide,
And next let a cipher be duly applied
And if the result you should rightly divine,
You’ll find that the whole makes but one out of nine.
This one is a bit of a challenge, so won’t unmask any submitted answers until Wednesday or Thursday.
I think this can be the answer:
1) 101/ 50
cipher:
step 1: takes away the last digit of both numbers–>10/5=2
step 2: append the taken digits in the order numerator&denominator—> 1&0–> 10
step3: substract the result of step 1 from the result of step 2—-> 10 – 2 = 8
the whole makes 9 but 1(9-1)—>8 I think it could be.
Another way: (for the divine phrase)
1)101/50
cipher:
step 1: appende the first 2 digits of both numbers 1 & 5 =15
step 2: take away the last number of the denominator: 5
step 3 : divide result of step1 from result of step2 15/5=3
step 4: replicate result of step 3—> 33( the age of christ when he died)
step 5: mirror on Y axis the first 3 of the age and stuck it on the other 3 —> 8
8 that is 9 but 1(9-1)
Again i think it could be, but at least i tried
Clio, one of nine muses.
101 is CI in roman numerals, and 50 is L, so if you “divide” CI by L, you get CLI.
Took me a while to remember that a cipher can also mean the number zero, so if yod apply a cipher, you end up with CLI0, or Clio.
CLI = 100 (C) DIVIDED BY 50 (L) IN ROMAN NUMERALS
ADD A CIPHER (ZERO, 0)
TO GET ONE OF THE NINE MUSES.
CLIO
In Roman numerals 101 is C1 and 50 is L. So, “Divide 101 by 50″ becomes “Divide C1 by L”. One way of doing this is: “CL1″.
The word “cipher” in olden times meant “zero” (which is the origin of the word), so add zero to the end of “CL1″ making “CL10″. Finally, change the 1 to an i and the zero to the letter O to make CLIO.
Clio was one of nine muses in Greek mythology.
The “cipher” is 0.055
Clio
Clio
Clio is a nice answer, every day is good to learn something new, the nine muses, clio, thats a genius answer, its like a Sam Lyod problem
Hi Suineg- I probably should of added the word ‘riddle’ somewhere to give some more guidance on the type of answer we were looking for. Sorry about that