It worked on me.

[applegrove]

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[Deuxcents]

1. Yes!

[Bayard]

2. It got the last 2 digits right anyway

Spookay!

[3catwoman3]

3. 85 minus 74 11 plus 40 (19)51

Bingo!

[Enter stage left]

4. And I was told you'd never need math like this when you were older...

Duh!

[Tree Lady]

5. Yes worked for me

Weird...

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Gives last two digits correctly.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Close but no cigar, yet...

85-72=13+40=1953...

Next week: 85-73=12+40-1952 OK, that's better.

[Ptah]

8. No, it doesn't work for me.

85 minus 74 equals 11.
11 plus 40 equals 51.
I was born in 1950.

[Phoenix61]

9. When do you turn 75?nt

[Ptah]

12. Dec. 14

[Phoenix61]

15. So you'll be 75 this year. nt

[Ptah]

17. It doesn't work for me today.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. 85+40 eq 125, which is how many years since 1900 to 2025, so it works as a 2 digit birth year if you are over 25 yo.

It only works in 2025. Next year they will have to make it 86 or make the other number 41.

[applegrove]

14. Shhhhhh.

[Marie Marie]

11. Damn you applegrove - you did this on purpose didn't you? You know how much I hate math

and you're just mocking me. .

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Feed me 85 beers and everything works

... including the hearse carrying my pickled body to the crematorium.

[tblue37]

16. Yep. It works.

[BadgerMom]

18. Yep!

[Trueblue Texan]

19. Yes, because 40+85 will always 125 nt

[SamKnause]

20. Yes, it worked for me.