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#10 - a person (he was surprised himself when he found the answer). Comrade Sylvanis! Please explain your train of thought. I still couldn't figure it out...
And #6, you should know, especially the residents of Russia.

I reasoned as follows: abstract concepts like "antonym" didn't work as an answer—which means it must be something concrete.
Then I remembered Derzhavin's "I am a slave, I am a tsar, I am a worm, I am God"—and I guessed it :)

And in principle, all these pairs of contradictions can indeed be applied to a person or humanity (except for "lighter than a feather," where things are different—one must consider that riddles of this type were most likely composed before the mid-twentieth century, and while the idea of the soul was shared by few at the time, it was known to everyone and resided, so to speak, in "working memory"—it was always ready to "jump" into the mind—so this refers specifically to the soul).

And generally, everything we can conceive, we can only conceive through ourselves... so in principle, all our thoughts and everything we invent bear an indelible imprint of a human being...

Simple puzzles
#19
There is an elevator in a four-story office building. On the first floor, 20 people work. The number of employees doubles on each subsequent floor. Which button in the building's elevator is pressed most often?
#20
Where can you sit while standing?

I have some doubts about #18. Could 9 be the answer? (Those with powerful processors can check).

No. 19 - could it be the 1st floor? ;)

Does anyone feel like writing their own riddles here? I'd be happy to try and solve them!

No. 20: You can sit on a diet standing up, and you can sit in prison standing up, and there are many other things you can do standing up, especially when you do them sitting down. ;)

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No. 18
Write down the largest number that can be written with three characters!!!

No. 18: Nine to the power of nine to the power of nine, or 9^9^9.

Writing this number looks approximately like this:
____9
__9
9

I made a mistake in the value of the number, it is much larger,
it contains more than one hundred million zeros. :eek:

Simple
I have some doubts about No. 18. Could 9!! be a solution (those with powerful processors can check).

To date, no processor is capable of calculating that.

A trash riddle: An old man is sitting, Wearing seven fur coats; Whoever undresses him Will shed tears. P.S. - Do not use the word "onion"! Look for an alternative answer! If no one guesses, I will tell you myself:D

Shrek (just kidding)

Not quite.

Flexing. Why? Imagine you approach a man and start undressing him, what would happen?:D

The representation of this number looks approximately like this:
____9
__9
9

I made a mistake in the value of the number; it is much larger and contains over one hundred million zeros. :eek:

This number is approximately equal to: 5.075287860564156007197541597417e+68:eek:

This number is approximately equal to: 5.075287860564156007197541597417e+68:eek:

If you have a powerful processor, compare it to 9^9!

This number is approximately equal to: 5.075287860564156007197541597417e+68:eek:

Nope, this number is much larger; it has hundreds of millions of digits, while this one only has 68. :(

If you have a powerful processor, compare it to 9^9!

Here, 9^9 = 387,420,489.

And 9^9^9 = 9^(387,420,489)=:eek:

That is, it's nine multiplied by itself 387,420,489 times.

For comparison, imagine ten multiplied by itself that many times.
The result will be greater than 1.0e+100000000.

I'm still sure that nine factorial to the power of nine is greater.

Ah, I thought it was an exclamation mark...

Yes, you're right, 9^9 != 387420489!
That number is much larger.