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“So here’s a quantity between 1 and 60” Says Grandpa
“If you are taking its WORD anagram and subtract this quantity you’re going to get
Anagram of the quantity – quantity > 5
What is that quantity”?
“So it’s the anagram of the spelling of the quantity?” I requested
“Yes, son. Think”
Post script
I see quite a lot of Fractions as solutions. There is an easy integer answer. No Fraction.
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Grandpa is considering of
45
as a result of
FORTY-FIVE
anagrams to
OVER FIFTY
and
OVER FIFTY minus FORTY-FIVE yields over 5.
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NB This reply was given when the primary line of the puzzle learn: “So here’s a quantity under 60” Says Grandpa – since then an extra stipulation has been added to limit the quantity additional to ‘between 1 and 60’…
I word that Grandpa hasn’t specified that the quantity have to be:
larger than 0 – simply that it must be “under 60”.
To this finish, I suggest that Grandpa may be considering of:
MINUS SEVENTY-SIX (-76)
Its anagram is then:
MINUS SIXTY-SEVEN (-67)
and the calculation works out as:
-67 – (-76) = -67 + 76 = 9
which is certainly bigger than 5…!
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Ok considering exterior the field…
The quantity might be
One
Since
Eon – One > 5
Since an eon is a extremely huge quantity (might be 1 Billion or only a actually impossibly lengthy measure of time) that minus 1 is at all times larger than 5
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Oh boy, right here I’m going swiping once more:
The quantity is
Fifty-sevenths, $frac{50}{7}$, and its anagram is seventy-fifths, $frac{70}{5}$.
The distinction is
$frac{70}{5}-frac{50}{7} = frac{490-250}{35} = frac{240}{35}= frac{48}{7} = 6 frac{6}{7} > 5$.
Second Try
I’m going to make use of
an incorrect (out of date) spelling of forty, specifically fourty, to get fourty-six and sixty-four (64-46=18)…..
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Perhaps the integer between 1 and 60 is
50, or as Grandpa calls it, 300 and fifty sevenths
the anagram of the quantity – quantity > 5
300 and seventy fifths – 50 = 74 – 50 = 24
I upvoted El-Guest’s reply and it could have been sniped !
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46 and 64
Fourty Six and Sixty Four
64 – 46 = 18 > 5
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answered May 13, 2020 at 16:55
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I dont know if this qualifies for anagram, nonetheless the distinction is simply too low
the quantity might be $frac{50}6$ with anagram `sixty fifth’. The distinction is $frac{60}5-frac{50}6 = 3.66..$‘
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