Empty Soup Box

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the case of the empty soap box, which happened in one of Japan 's biggest cosmetics companies. The company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty.

Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which transported all the packaged boxes of soap to the delivery department.

For some reason, one soap box went through the assembly line empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem. Post-haste, the engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors manned by two people to watch all the soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and they worked fast but they spent a whoopee amount to do so.

But when a rank-and-file employee in a small company was posed with the same problem, he did not get into complications of X-rays, etc., but instead came out with another solution.

He bought a strong industrial electric fan and pointed it at the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Moral
Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problems :-)

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Answer for "How can this be true"?

1. Let's calculate the area of the pieces involved:
area of RED triangle = (8 * 3) / 2 = 12 units
area of GREEN traingle = (5 * 2) / 2 = 5 units
area of the BRAUN piece = 7 units
area of the GREEN piece = 8 units
2. in CASE 1 we are "putting" all the pieces on the GRID.
The TOTAL area of the pieces = 12 + 5 + 7 + 8 = 32 units
3. in CASE 2 we have all the pieces PLUS one square,
meaning we have VIZIBLE an area of 32 + 1 = 33 units
4. now let's calculate the area of the TRINAGLE that is VISIBLE on the GRID:
one leg of the right-angled triangle is 13 the othe one is other 5.
So the area is (13 * 5) / 2 = 32,5 units
CONCLUSION we are covering in case 1 the area of 32,5 units with pieces of 32 units;
and in case 2 the same area of 32,5 units with 33 units. The 0.5 unit difference can be visualized if we take a piece of paper, draw the grid and put the pieces on it.

finding a solution ... for information problems

Un caine se rătăceşte prin junglă. Plimbandu-se el liniştit vede un tigru îndreptandu-se în goană spre el, cu intenţia clară de a-l manca.
Cainele se gândeste: "Frate, am încurcat-o! Asta mă haleşte!" Dar imediat vede nişte oase pe jos. Se aşează pe burtă şi începe să roadă oasele, cu spatele la tigru.
Chiar înainte ca tigrul să sară, cainele exclamă satisfăcut, frecîndu-se pe burtă: "Mmmm, delicios tigru! Oare or mai fi si alţii p'aici?"
Auzind, tigrul îşi înabuşeşte elanul şi înfricoşat se prelinge pe lîngă copaci, luand distanţa: "A fost cat p'aci; cainele aproape m-a dat gata!"
O maimuta care a urmărit scena dintr-un copac, sperând sa se puna bine cu tigrul, fuge după acesta ca să-i povestească înşelatoria. Cainele o vede. Maimuta îl ajunge pe tigru, şi-i spune pe faţă toata tărăşenia. Tigrul, înecat de furie zice: "Urca în spinarea mea si vei vedea ce îi voi face nemernicului!"
Acum cainele vede tigrul cu maimuta în carca şi se gîndeste "Ei, cum o mai scot la capăt de data asta?" Dar în loc să fugă se întoarce cu spatele, prefăcîndu-se că nu i-a văzut. Şi... cînd aceştia au fost destul de aproape zice: "Unde oare e maimuta aia?; de juma' de oră am trimis-o să-mi aducă un tigru şi nici pînă acu nu s-a întors!!!"

How can this be true?

As you can see in the upper arrangement, we have put 2 triangles and 2 other shapes together in a "big" traingle ABC. This triangle is 13 X 5.
Now in the lower arrangements, we have the same 2 traingles and the same other 2 shapes, rearreanged in the SAME 13 X 5 big triangle ABC. BUT it looks like ONE SQUARE is not covered !!! HOW CAN THIS BE TRUE ???
Hint: I will disclose the cunniing brain manipulation next week, 4 the 1's that couldn't figure out.

Manipulating the Human Mind

Keith Barry is doing "Brain Magic" ...
just take a look at his performance!

His first warm-up trick on Manipulating the Human Mind is so simply that I needed some time to figure it out.
He took for a second HIS hands APART expainig how the fingers should be ... and when he put them BACK together, they were NOT in the same position. This is why turning them they were in a DIFFERENT position than the hands of anybody else from the audience.


Here is a snapshot of this moment when he took them apart. (he was meanwhile "expaining" something about the fingers. his explanations did "the brain manipulation" - the attention was focus on something else NOT on the important fact that he was taking them APART and putting them back in a different position)
Forgott 2 tell u ...
If you try to do the trick by yourself ... you will find out that I did not tell you WHAT he really did. WHAT means DIFFERENT position? I tried ... it was not simple. With try and error ... it is hard to manage. It is simple to find out, if you START from the END. Get the hands in the final position, turn them around and ... apart. Now you know HOW they must be in order to make the trick. Forgott 2 tell u ... that if your hands are so felxible ... it is enough to TURN the LEFT HAND by 360 degree (so that NOBODY is taking note of this movement) and putting them together ... will do this trick.

Q: Unde se afla punctul G la femei?

In lumina ultimelor cercetari s-a descoperit ca el este situat... la sfarsitul cuvantului SHOPPING!

the secret of ... Magic Ball - Magische Zauberkugel

there was [one upon a time] a Internet page www.messe-ideen.de/upload/magische-zauberkugel.swf.
Don't look 4 it, it dissapeared [some call it - it was deleted].
What did it do?

Imagine any two-digit number.
Add then 2 figures and subtract
the result from the original number.
Search then the symbol fitting to the result
in the table and you concentrate upon this.
Click then the crystal ball. .....
and it will show you the symbol .....

Example:
your number: 32 >> 3+2 = 5 >> 32 - 5 = 27
the symbol is a kind of "M" with a tail.

Than a new table is presented. You repeat it
and again [an other] the corresponding symbol
is appearing on the blue ball!

You can repeat it again, and again ... and it
will never fail.

and HOW IS IT DONE?
there is NO magic program behind it ... only a simple program and some math.

let's start lifting the secret: we stop on a screen and choose not one number,
but 11, 12, 13, 14, ... , 98, 99 [all of them]. It does not matter what we choose, as following the instructions we will find out a couple of numbers. For each one there is the same symbol in the table. The symbol that will be generated in the blue ball.
Next screen will have an other symbol [just 2 confuse the russians ;-)] in all this same positions and the magic blue ball will show this time this symbol.


In german it was telling [see the pic]:

Denken Sie sich eine beliebige zweistellige Zahl.
Zählen Sie dann die 2 Ziffern zusammen und ziehen Sie
das Ergebnis von der ursprünglichen Zahl ab.
Suchen Sie dann das zum Ergebnis passende Symbol
in der Tabelle und konzentrieren Sie sich auf dieses.
Klicken Sie dann die Kristallkugel an.
Das Symbol wird in der Kugel erscheinen!

Beispiel:
Ihre Zahl: 32 >> 3+2 = 5 >> 32 - 5 = 27

Dann wird ein neuer Bildschirm präsentiert. Sie wiederholen es
und wieder das entsprechende Symbol [diesmal ein anderes]
erscheint auf dem blauen Ball!

Sie können es wieder, und wieder ... versuchen und es
wird nie versagen.

und WIE WIRD ES GETAN?
es gibt KEIN magisches Programm dahinter ... nur ein einfache Programm und ein bischen Mathematik.

wollen wir anfangen, das Geheimnis zu lüften: wir halten einen Schirm an und wählen nicht eine Zahl, sondern 11, 12, 13, 14..., 98, 99 [alle Zahlen]. Es ist nicht von Bedeutung, was wir wählen, als im Anschluss an die Instruktionen werden wir finden
dass in der Tabelle ein und das selbe Symbol erscheint. Dieses Symbol wird auf dem blauen "magischen" Ball erscheinen.
Folgender Schirm wird ein anderes Symbol [um die Russen zu verwirren ;-)] in all dem zuvor ermitteleten Positionen haben und der magische blaue Ball dieses Mal dieses neue Symbol anzeigen.

Lifting the ... illusion of David Copperfield.

In a moment you will enter a magical world ...
In just a moment...
... You will witness something really strange
You will witness ...
An amazing illusion...
Although this is a common program, you will see that...
I can, through the monitor, see your mind.
You can see 6 different cards.
Think on one.
Just think on it.
Do not touch it
Do not click on it.
I will find the card on your mind

Now look straigth into my eyes and think on your card...
I do not know you,
I could not see the card you have chosen…
...but I know exactly the card that is on your mind...
¡Look!
¡¡Your card is gone!!

¿Surprised?
If you take a close look at the initial cards and at the final cards ... you will find the explanation that is based on lack of human memory ... nothing more ... ;-)

problem solving - thinking out of the box - 4 3's

It's not impossible, you just need to think outside the box a little.
Here goes:

How is it possible to plant four trees so that the distance between any two given trees is the same for any pair of trees. That is, if the distance between tree A and B was three feet, the distance between B and C, C and D, D and B, etc. would all be three feet.

email me ... 2 get the solution/help

Problem resolution - mission impossible

Getting to marry my son ...



Father: "I want you to marry a girl of my choice"

Son: "I will choose my own bride!!!"

Father: "But the girl is Bill Gates's daughter.."

Son: "Well, in that case...ok"



Next the father approaches Bill Gates.

Father: "I have a husband for your daughter...."

Bill Gates: "But my daughter is too young to marry!!!!!"

Father: "But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank."

Bill Gates: "Ah, in that case...ok"



Finally the father goes to see the president of the World Bank.

Father: "I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president."

President: "But I already have more vice- presidents than I need!"

Father: "But this young man is Bill Gates's son-in-law."

President: "Ah, in that case...ok"

Solving a problem - Spitalul de nebuni

In timpul unei vizite la un spital de nebuni,
un vizitator il intreaba pe Director ce criterii
se folosesc ca sa stabileasca daca un pacient
trebuie internat sau nu.

"Ei bine', spune Directorul,
"umplem o cada de baie, apoi ii oferim pacientului
o linguritza de ceai, o ceasca si o galeata si ii
cerem sa goleasca cada"

"Aha, intzeleg" spune vizitatorul,
"O persoana normala va folosi galeata pentru ca e
mai mare decat ceasca sau linguritza"

"Nu" spune Directorul.
"O persoana normala ar scoate dopul!
Doritzi un pat langa geam sau langa usa ?"

a puzzle a day - (1/n)*sinx = 6

(1/n)*sinx = 6

All you have to do is prove this statement is true [and send me the solution]

p.s. in les than 6 sec, if possible!

Problem determination - asking the right questions

Dinner conversation gone wrong ...

WIFE: "What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?"

HUSBAND: "Definitely not!"

WIFE: "Why not - don't you like being married?"

HUSBAND: "Of course I do."

WIFE: "Then why wouldn't you remarry?"

HUSBAND: "Okay, I'd get married again."

WIFE: "You would? (with a hurtful look on her face)"

HUSBAND: (makes audible groan).

WIFE: "Would you sleep with her in our bed?"

HUSBAND: "Where else would we sleep?"

WIFE: "Would you replace my pictures with hers?"

HUSBAND: "That would seem like the proper thing to do."

WIFE: "Would you play golf with her?"

HUSBAND: "I guess so."

WIFE: "Would she use my golf clubs?"

HUSBAND: "No, she's left-handed."

WIFE: - - - silence - - -

HUSBAND: "Shit."