# Help with a puzzle

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 20, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110 "2010-05-20T07:52:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVIL_COW_PIE)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/1 "2010-05-20T07:52:55Z")

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[Here.](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4623261741_8aa6a92bc9_o.jpg)

I have all but C, H, I and J.  
I think C has [something to do with](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit_(mathematics)) this, but it’s above my math skills.  
And I believe that the [first part of J is ‘e’,](http://www.elsething.com/math/deriving-e-using-limit-definition.html)but I couldn’t get the Austrailia part.

The answer to each of these will be a number.  
Can anyone help me out with these and explain what I’m missing? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVIL_COW_PIE)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/2 "2010-05-20T08:02:23Z")

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Update: I just figured out I.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/3 "2010-05-20T08:09:01Z")

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The Australia map looks to me like they’re focusing on the bay, which is called the Great Australian Bight.

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**Author:** ![EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVIL_COW_PIE)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/4 "2010-05-20T08:13:40Z")

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> [@needscoffee](#):
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> The Australia map looks to me like they’re focusing on the bay, which is called the Great Australian Bight.

Yep got J. Thanks

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**Author:** ![EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVIL_COW_PIE)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/5 "2010-05-20T08:45:02Z")

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Got C, just need H!

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**Author:** ![EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@EVIL\_COW\_PIE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVIL_COW_PIE)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/6 "2010-05-20T08:54:32Z")

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> [@EVIL\_COW\_PIE](#):
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> Got C, just need H!

Hmmm, I _think_ I got C, is it 3?

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**Author:** ![ivan732](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/aeb1de/32.png) [@ivan732](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan732)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/7 "2010-05-20T14:54:01Z")

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H has Bill Gates getting pie in the face, so I guess it’s something times pi. I don’t know who the other guy is, though.

I don’t get C.

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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/8 "2010-05-20T15:01:21Z")

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Isn’t the other guy Zero Mostel? Zero times pi is . . . undefined.

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**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/9 "2010-05-20T15:06:35Z")

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No, 0 x pi=0.

What digit is left? I didn’t do the other ones, but if zero hasn’t come up yet, then…

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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/10 "2010-05-20T15:50:22Z")

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> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> No, 0 x pi=0.
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> What digit is left? I didn’t do the other ones, but if zero hasn’t come up yet, then…

That’s got to be it, thanks.

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**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-a-puzzle/540110/11 "2010-05-20T17:46:59Z")

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> [@Sigmagirl](#):
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> Isn’t the other guy Zero Mostel? Zero times pi is . . . undefined.

0 times any defined number is always 0.

pi is defined. It’s just not rational. But it is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to twice its radius.
