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krus_aragon

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From the answer, it seems to be interpreting the string of digits as a pair of two digit numbers, then a pair of three, pair of four, etc..
 

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How did you work out what the grouping was?

From the answer, it seems to be interpreting the string of digits as a pair of two digit numbers, then a pair of three, pair of four, etc..

The grouping wasn't important, I'd have accepted other answers such as 192, 329, it was spotting that they were prime numbers that mattered.
 

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I did consider those two answers, but decided than an ascending sequence was more appropriate. The numbers given up to that point had all been ascending integers, so 192 may not have been appropriate as it is less than 317. At least, that was my logic. I did go to and fro on it.

Anyway, some more mathematics. Please give the answer to the following - I expect it to be in the same format.

(Uddingston to Mollinsburn) + (Gildersome to Rothwell) / (Sunbury on Thames to Southampton) - (West Bromwich to Exminster)

As a hint - order of operations are important.
 
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It is indeed correct. Your floor.

ADDENDUM: In case anyone was wondering, each route in brackets refers to a numbered UK motorway (with origin and destination as outlined on Wikipedia). Input the numbers into the sum and you get a number of another motorway.
 
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I was a Scout myself but two of my Cousins were in the Boys Brigade founded by Sir William Alexander Smith, in Glasgow.
 

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What links:

- The Mutha River in Pune, India
- The Cam at Cambridge
- The Hozugawa River from Kameoka to Arashiyama near Kyoto in Japan?
 

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That's it, I'm taking the floor to keep it alive.

What made everyone so interested in the wreck of HMS Edinburgh?
 

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That's it, I'm taking the floor to keep it alive.

What made everyone so interested in the wreck of HMS Edinburgh?

The most obvious answer first. Did have gold in it, ha harr?
 

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The most obvious answer first. Did have gold in it, ha harr?

Yes she did. After escorting an Arctic convoy to Murmansk the Russians loaded her up with £63m worth of gold (modern value) to pay for lend lease equipment. She was sunk with it all and from 1945 till 1986 the UK government kept after that gold, got most of it in the end.

Your wreck of a thread.
 

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I forgot to check this as I thought I'd probably be wrong, better say open floor in the absence of a decent question to ask.
 

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Which US actor is the only one to have starred in 8 different films each of which took over $100m at the box office.
 

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Rather than a megastar is it a character actor who happens to have had parts in some of the highest grossing films? Someone like Warwick Davis (Star Wars, Harry Potter).
 

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