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Re:A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving by eli on Thursday July 02, 2015 @05:37PM (#9821846)
Based on the context of the question and the UI of the testing interface, fractions seem unlikely to be an intended part of the question. I likewise wouldn't bother testing unicode U+216x roman numerals.
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Re:A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving by Ntrails on Friday July 03, 2015 @04:51AM (#9824365)
It refused to accept both fractions and imaginary numbers. I did test negatives and zeros since that was really the only remaining set I could think of.

Most importantly I used about 6 tests (3 right 3 wrong) to come up with the answer and then did another 17 looking for the trick. After all, it couldn't just be that simple right?

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