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Bill Matheny (BB basketball_junkie)
Catholic priest
Saint Albans, W.V.

Bill will donate his winnings to his elementary school, St. Francis of Asissi.

$500,000
Patented in 1960, the Luhn algorithm is used in which of these tasks?
A: Changing traffic lights B: Predicting tornadoes
C: Verifying credit card numbers D: Conducting a military draft

Bill knows

Spoiler

tornadoes

have a scale not called Luhn. The year makes him lean toward

Spoiler

credit card numbers

, but he can’t risk $200,000 so he walks.

Answer

C: Verifying credit card numbers

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$500,000
Patented in 1960, the Luhn algorithm is used in which of these tasks?
A: Changing traffic lights B: Predicting tornadoes
C: Verifying credit card numbers D: Conducting a military draft

Bill knows

Spoiler

tornadoes

have a scale not called Luhn. The year makes him lean toward

Spoiler

credit card numbers

, but he can’t risk $200,000 so he walks.

Answer

C: Verifying credit card numbers

Yay, Bill! Well done!

I have no lifelines left, and I suspect I went out on $250,000. Sayonara.

500K: I haven't looked up what I had left, but like contestant all I could think of was "not tornadoes". Even if I had 50/50 left & one of the choices was "tornadoes" I'm not sure I'd have gone w/ other choice. Only if I still had +1 & they were sure would I have guessed here.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Bill Matheny (BB basketball_junkie)
Catholic priest
Saint Albans, W.V.

Bill will donate his winnings to his elementary school, St. Francis of Asissi.

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$500,000
Patented in 1960, the Luhn algorithm is used in which of these tasks?
A: Changing traffic lights B: Predicting tornadoes
C: Verifying credit card numbers D: Conducting a military draft

Bill knows

Spoiler

tornadoes

have a scale not called Luhn. The year makes him lean toward

Spoiler

credit card numbers

, but he can’t risk $200,000 so he walks.

Answer

C: Verifying credit card numbers

I would have already used my ATA and possibly the 50:50 so I'm down to my +1. I'm pretty sure it's not A or B and don't know why D would use an algorithm. I'd use my +1 and hope for better confidence.

earendel wrote:I'm pretty sure it's not A or B and don't know why D would use an algorithm.

Conducting a military draft would use an algorithm to ensure randomness in its selections.