Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 247

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 247. Here are my solutions to them.

1: A thousand divided into two by five for the Romans stores upwards of 4.7 GB.

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DVD

A thousand divided into two by five for the Romans (D = 500 in Roman numerals, with V = 5 between them) stores upwards of 4.7 GB (the amount of data you can write to a DVD).

2: Four hundred was a medium-size car for less than 900 MB.

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CD

Four hundred (Roman numerals CD = 500 – 100) was a medium-size car (a compact) for less than 900 MB (typical maximum data storage of CD-ROM).

3: Could have been 995 perhaps as a guest OS.

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VM

Could have been 995 (not used by the Romans, but it could be 1000 – 5) perhaps as a guest OS (what a VM is).

The common factor

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All three contain Roman numerals.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.