Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 293
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 293. Here are my solutions to them.
1: 42, 3.14159, 0x2A, but not x.
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Numbers
42 (an integer number), 3.14159 (a floating-point number), 0x2A (a hexadecimal number), but not x (a symbol).
2: Forty has formulas to be pre-eminent against Apple’s digits.
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Excel
Forty (Roman numerals XL) has formulas (a feature of Excel) to be pre-eminent (to excel) against Apple’s digits (Numbers, its main competitor on macOS).
3: One of six in a cider press that died in 2007.
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AppleWorks
One of six (the spreadsheet module was one of six in AppleWorks) in a cider press (an apple works) that died in 2007 (when it was officially discontinued to make way for the iWork suite).
The common factor
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They are all spreadsheets that have run in macOS.
I look forward to your putting alternative cases.
