Explain the Answer

[Gregory Matthews]

Given a question and the answer to the question, please explain the answer:

*  The number seventy-seven is exactly one-half of another number.  What is that other number?

*  That other number is zero zero.

Please explain.

 

[Gregory Matthews]

Clue:

 

I gave this problem to my son who is a software engineer.  His first response was:  The numbers are not in a base-`0 system.  He was wrong, the numbers were in a base-10 system.  HIs second was related to a stack overflow.  Again he was wrong.

The answer is simple.  It does not require one to be a software engineer.  It only requires one to think out of the box.  Actually, every person reading this thread has the knowledge required to explain, as I have asked.

When I started to tell my son the correct answer, I only got three (3) words out and he was giving it to me.  It is a simple answer that is in the experience of every person reading this thread.

 

 

[Gregory Matthews]

The answer is:

*  Think digital. 

*  In a digital display there are six elements that come together to form the number zero.

*  In a digital display, there are three elements that come together to form the number seven.