MARTINS 'CHAMPAGNE' MONEY POSER. A Common Question.

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The first person to answer this will win a bottle of champagne.

What do the following two numbers have in common?

70.701
552.86

Clues Added 12.4.05

Well no one is close, so here's a couple of clues. As they're the first clues, I'm going to keep them very cryptic, but they should ease it a tiny bit. (and i gave a little more away if you listen to this week's Martin's Money Muttering)

Clue A. Don't be fooled by the spot
Clue B. Good research into my past may help

UPDATE NOTE

At last this Poser has now been solved. See post 104 for the answer and 112 for the response. (I didnt put the answer here so as not to ruin for those who want to try it themselves!)

Best answers:

• they both have decimal points!!!!!
• Complete guess...Difference in Ј sterling annual interest paid on Ј10,000 invested in the current lowest paid interest rate savings account, and the highest paid interest rate savings account available at the moment??
  Reason why - I guess it's feasible?
  Reasons why not - They actually look like reference numbers?
  - why based on Ј10,000?
• I think it's the Dewey Decimal classification. 070 is New media, journalism, publishing, which would fit as Martin is a financial journalist.
  But 550 is geology!
• Perhaps it's the section for journalistic dinosaurs....?!?
  Martin is not one, I hasten to add.. tee hee.....
  Earth sciences and Journalism....? Writing about what is going on here on earth... tee hee ?!
  Or Ј70.701 how much money I have....
  Ј552.86 how much money I would like to have...?! :rolleyes:
• Is it the average number of number of Miles a car will do on 70 litres of fuel.
  i.e. 70.701L X 0.22 = 15.554 gallons
  552.86 / 15.554 = 35.54 mpg
• Hi there !
  I have an answer to the numbers question -
  I think that if you divide each of the numbers by themselves in both cases you come up with the answer 0.001
  Yippee - that's one answer !
• er... i know that post was a joke, but 0.001???!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?!? :confused:
• They are both parts of an internet unique identification number.
  Nigel.
• Erm..... no one is close.
  As always - once you get the real answer you'll KNOW it is right.
• They are both IP addresses
• They are both IP addresses
• They are both parts of an IP address, (internet protocol)
• I am new here, on the matter of them being IP addy's, as I am sure you are aware an IP address is made of four parts of upto 3 digits each. Each part can go upto 255(the highest number possible with 8 bits) so they're not IP address'.
  For example, 127.0.0.1 is possible but 668.534.123.153 is not.
  Perhaps they are the average threads posted per day(70.701) and average posts per day(552.86) for the whole forum, just a guess though.
• 556.86 - 70.701 = 482.159
  70.701 - 556.86 = -482.159
  So if you subtract one from the other you end up with the same number?
• Or:
  Abs(556.86-70.701) = 482.159
  Abs(70.701-556.86) = 482.159
• OK if you add the first 5 and the middle 5 you get 10 and put that in reverse in 70.701 add the second 5 and the 2 and put that in front of the 01 so you have the 701, if you then take the 86 add them together and divide it by 2 you have 07 put that in reverse order and that would then give you the 70.701, it seems very complicated to explain but you never know, its worth a try.
  70 . 7 01
  5+5+2 . 8+6/2
• Just to clarify, this is not an arcane maths puzzle. It's a Martin's Money Poser. The answer is one that will be obvious when you get it.
  For example if it were an IP address (it isn't) then it would probably be the mid IP address for 'call18866' and 'call1899' the two cheapest phone providers. That's the type of answer to these things (don't get drawn into this though, i'm using it as an example). The answer is specific and if you get it you'll know. Though it is VERY tough - hence its a champagne poser.
  The best way to get this is to 'hunt as a pack' together. Have a look through some of the previous posers to see the way it works - hopefully it'll help
  Martin
• I tried putting this on last night but it was locked :confused:
  Is it anything like this?
  From what I can make out it's interest gained in saving a lump sum of Ј3000 in an ISA (at 5.8%) for three years (compound interest total is Ј552.86) and leaving it in a current account for the same time paying 0.1% interest (and losing 20% of that in tax), (compound interest is Ј70.70).
  So I guess the 'common question' is how much interest do I make by putting money in a ISA compared with in a bank (current) account?
  T