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Okay, the first challenge number didn't look to hard the way Penny did it. Presley dipped her quill in her ink, and began calculating hers.

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09/01

Or was September first 01/09? Presley decided to calculate both, just in case.

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9-1=8 or 1-9=-8=8

Presley sighed in relief. The answer was the same no matter which order she put her month and day in. Her first challenge number was 8. Presley flipped the pages of her book. What did that mean?

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10419032)

Right then. Her volunteers. Where were her Hufflepuffs? "Alright, Penny." Technically she hadn't volunteered before, after all, but Fina just asked to come up when the Greingoth boy hadn't. "Penny? You can do the first challenge for us. Eino, you can show us the second challenge number. Evelyn? The third challenge number. And Josh? The fourth."

And look at you smart Lions already attempting your challenge numbers on your own. Fina made a mental tab to check their works after the four students displayed their examples on the board.

Hmm, she hadn't expected Josh to volunteer, yet as she stood up, she smiled at him anyhow. That is, before she looked in her book really quick to make sure she knew what the heck she was doing. Like the pinnacles, but just subtraction. Alright, hopefully that was...simple enough.

Moving up to the board, she wrote out the equations first so she wouldn't forget before starting to move onto the calculations. With nothing mentioning the Destiny number, she almost forgot about her already. Thank goodness too. Evelyn didn't want to end up in a bad mood for the rest of the lesson.

First Challenge Number
Day of Birth - Month of Birth

20 - 8 (August)
2 - 8 = -6

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of Birth

2058 - 20
(2 + 0 + 5 + 8) - (2 + 0)
(15) - 2
6 - 2 = 4

Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number

6 - 4 = 2

Alright, this really was harder than the pinnacle numbers, especially since she hadn't done these Challenge numbers before. Were they supposed to keep the negative signs for the final answer? Especially when calculating the third challenge number? Or just leave them off entirely since it didn't matter if it was a positive or negative in the end.

Unless she did the calculations wrong, considering it only said to subtract the two numbers, yet in the book, the equations for both the pinnacles and challenges were just a little different from one another. What if they wrote the book wrong? Eh well, Hadley would tell her if she were wrong. Meh, being wrong. Not cool.

Uhh now challenge numbers? This was getting soooo messed up in Helena's head. But... calculating these challenge numbers was pretty much the same thing as calculating the pinnacles, right?

SPOILER!!: more numbers

Uhh... she had some negative challenge numbers. "Professor?" Helena asked, with her hand in the air. "Is it alright if some are negative?" Or maybe she didn't do something right?

Eino jumped down from his seat and ran to the board, flailing his arms around, nearly beheading half of the class, and tripping on his untied shoelaces twice. But he made it. Without further ado, he began writing his equation on the board, and solving it.

He first wrote down the numbers he was using, then proceeded with the calculation. After using his ever so handy fingers to count he concluded his not so challenging challenge number calculation.

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Originally Posted by Blackboard

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of birth

Year of birth: 2061
Day of birth: 11

2061 – 11
(2 + 0 + 6 + 1) – (1+1)
9 – 2 = 7

He really hoped he wasn't wrong, but then again this wouldn't be a first for him. Then he did that ugly forced smile again, where he was basically just showing his teeth to class.

Chloe really was not much into all this math but she knew she had to atleast try. They were on challenge numbers now, interesting. She listened as the professor explaned how it worked and then decided to try it herself.

Chloe's parchment:

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First Challenge Number
Day of Birth - Month of Birth

5 - 8 (August)
5 - 8 = -3

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of Birth

2056 - 5
(2 + 0 + 5 + 6) - 5
(13) - 6
4 - 5 = -1

Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number

-3 - (-1)= -2

Challenge number #4
- month - year of birth

8 - 2056 = 8 - (2 + 0 + 5 + 6) =
8-13= -7

Chloe goped she did it right.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10419032)

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Originally Posted by Blackboard

DOB: 17 August (8) 2057

4th Challenge Number: year of birth - month of birth

2057 - 8
(2+0+5+7) - 8
14 - 8
(1+4) - 8
5 - 8
= -3 (or 3)

That was it, right? It should have been like that...however...there was one point Josh was unsure of: Was he supposed to subtract while calculating the year of birth number as well? Hmmmm... That way it would be like;

2057 - 8
(2-0-5-7) - 8
-10 - 8
([-]1-0) - 8
-1 - 8
= -9

Meeeeeeeeh...that, to be honest, did not look so reasonable. Then, instead he was going to go with the one he had written on the board. If he was wrong, Professor Hadley would mention it after all.

Moooore numbers to figure out. Hadley was really laying it thick this lesson. Legend picked up his quill and started to work out his own Challenge Numbers as people went up to the board. It really wasn't that difficult. Did people not know how to subtract? Why were they still asking the same questions? "People just listen." He murmured to no one in particular.

Huh. But maybe it was better that they kept asking questions.

That meant that Hadley couldn't make them do MORE calculations. "PEOPLE! Keep asking questions!" Legend said loudly. Making a line between his Pinnacles he began to write out his Challenge Numbers.

SPOILER!!: More Calculations

This wasn't that hard...yeah. Legend nodded. It looked alright.

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Originally Posted by Trish (Post 10419801)

Penny made her way up to the front of the class, and over to the blackboard..
Lifting a piece of chalk, she started doing the First Challenge Number

Penny looked back at the class, to explain her answer... "My brithday is May 5th...
The formula requires me to subtract my day of birth from my month of birth..
which is 05 - 05 = 0
My first Challenge Number is 0..."

Then standing back for Eino, so he can start the second number calculations...

"Yup. Thank you, Penny," Fina said at the young Hufflepuff girl. Zero... Cipher challenge... interesting.

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Originally Posted by Roselyn (Post 10419985)

First Challenge Number
Day of Birth - Month of Birth

20 - 8 (August)
2 - 8 = -6

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of Birth

2058 - 20
(2 + 0 + 5 + 8) - (2 + 0)
(15) - 2
6 - 2 = 4

Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number

6 - 4 = 2

Evelyn was next with the third challenge number, which she wrote out so very clearly. "Good job," Fina complimented the sixth year. Who conveniently now only had one more challenge number to calculate. Technically speaking.

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Originally Posted by Starbreeze (Post 10420269)

"Perfect!" Truthfully, it was; for someone who seemed so nervous about numbers, Eino actually solved that second challenge number pretty well.

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Originally Posted by Lara_the_Firelady (Post 10420370)

Realising his hand was still up which was pretty unnecessary since the professor had heard that he was volunteering, Josh lowered it quickly and looked around if that had taken anyone's attention. He must have looked stupid doing that but there was no one around laughing or snickering at him. So fine. Fine for those people actually, for their own well-being. He was already irritated by some certain person and he did not need another.

Ooooh...the professor had chosen him! For the fourth challenge number. Good. Smiling at the woman some, the lion boy rose from the chair and walked to blackboard standing beside Evelyn.

*stare*

Eh...he needed to calculate that number, right...yes. So, taking his eyes off someone else, Josh looked at the blackboard instead and started his work.

That was it, right? It should have been like that...however...there was one point Josh was unsure of: Was he supposed to subtract while calculating the year of birth number as well? Hmmmm... That way it would be like;

2057 - 8
(2-0-5-7) - 8
-10 - 8
([-]1-0) - 8
-1 - 8
= -9

Meeeeeeeeh...that, to be honest, did not look so reasonable. Then, instead he was going to go with the one he had written on the board. If he was wrong, Professor Hadley would mention it after all.

Was he doubting himself? Judging from the look as he checked over his work, Josephina suspected that the Lion Boy was. "Three is correct for your final challenge number, yes. Thank you."

Turning back toward the class, "If you haven't attempted so, feel free to begin work on calculating your challenge numbers and I'll be around to check your numbers." Hadley instructed, as she started first with a young Slytherin's parchment nearby....

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Originally Posted by nogoodforyou (Post 10420227)

Uhh now challenge numbers? This was getting soooo messed up in Helena's head. But... calculating these challenge numbers was pretty much the same thing as calculating the pinnacles, right?

SPOILER!!: more numbers

Uhh... she had some negative challenge numbers. "Professor?" Helena asked, with her hand in the air. "Is it alright if some are negative?" Or maybe she didn't do something right?

"Negative numbers don't matter. Pay no mind to that," Didn't she say that already? Hmm. These students really needed to listen when others asked questions. "But anyway, you've calculated all four of your numbers backwards. Check on the board for the four examples if you're unsure of what the textbook is saying."

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Originally Posted by Herminny (Post 10420354)

First Challenge Number
Day of Birth - Month of Birth

5 - 8 (August)
5 - 8 = -3

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of Birth

2056 - 5
(2 + 0 + 5 + 6) - 5
(13) - 6
4 - 5 = -1

Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number

-3 - (-1)= -2

Challenge number #4
- month - year of birth

8 - 2056 = 8 - (2 + 0 + 5 + 6) =
8-13= -7

Chloe goped she did it right.

"The third challenge number is correct, but you've written the numbers backwards from the formula," Fina said, examining the Lioness' work. "And your fourth number is wrong. Make sure you reduce that 13, as you did before, but also it's year of birth minus the month." Writing these numbers backwards was a common error.

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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles (Post 10420468)

SPOILER!!: More Calculations

Another repeating number? That was a sign he had done it right....right? Hopefully. The whole negative number thing made it seem wrong.

"You should reduce the 14 to a single digit for your second and fourth challenge numbers before you do the subtraction." Because that was how they did things in numerology; reduce first. Not to mention there was no 9 challenge number. "So your second through fourth numbers are incorrect." But at least he didn't record the numbers backwards.

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Originally Posted by Presley Black (Post 10419875)

Okay, the first challenge number didn't look to hard the way Penny did it. Presley dipped her quill in her ink, and began calculating hers.
Or was September first 01/09? Presley decided to calculate both, just in case.
Presley sighed in relief. The answer was the same no matter which order she put her month and day in. Her first challenge number was 8. Presley flipped the pages of her book. What did that mean?

"Doesn't matter really, but for consistency sake, you should write the calculation out as one minus nine, since that's the way the equation is written in the textbook," Fina explained, noting the confusion on the young claw's face.

OOC: as an FYI, lesson with either close by 1pm tomorrow or when I get home from work at ~10:30pm. So keep this in mind if you want class participation credit for doing calculations =)

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10420523)

Ahh she did it alllll wrong.

"Oh. I thought there was just -" just... minus instead of plus. Uhhh. "Never mind," the girl mumbled, feeling her cheeks turn bright red. "Thank you."

SPOILER!!: even more numbers

There. This time it should be alright.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10420523)

Turning back toward the class, "If you haven't attempted so, feel free to begin work on calculating your challenge numbers and I'll be around to check your numbers." Hadley instructed, as she started first with a young Slytherin's parchment nearby....

OOC: as an FYI, lesson with either close by 1pm tomorrow or when I get home from work at ~10:30pm. So keep this in mind if you want class participation credit for doing calculations =)

Ok so after watching the four students try their luck at the new set of calculations on the board with the instruction of Hadley, Riley believed he too was ready to try his hand at them. The Gryffindor picked up his quill, glanced at the board another time and then set to work on his parchment:

SPOILER!!: Riley's Challenge Numbers

After a few minutes of work and hardly any crossouts and mistakes, Riley had finished calculating each of his four Challenge numbers. Feeling quite accomplished with himself, the seventh year sat patiently in his chair, awaiting Professor Hadley to come over and check his work--he was only fidgeting minimally from excitment.

Once Professor Hadley had looked over her Pinnacle calculations, Vashti flipped open her textbook and went through the pages until she got to the one with the Pinnacle number meanings. She began jotting down the meanings on her parchment, only partially aware of what she was writing down. She frowned down at her notes when she heard points being taken from Ravenclaw thanks to Ellie. It wasn't too bad really, only a few points, but still. Any points taken at all were not good, especially since they were in third place. But oh well... Nothing to be done about it now.

Once she'd finished checking the meanings, frowning at them too once she read over them as they weren't all that great (especially number seven telling her to be a loner, pffft), she quickly scribbled down the cycle duration stuff for each pinnacle then looked up as they seemed to be moving on. To challenges, of all things. Great.

They didn't seem that, well, challenging, though. What was so hard about simple subtraction? Maybe a tad confusing, what with possible negative numbers and flip-flopping the places of what to add/subtract, but not really all that difficult.

SPOILER!!: Vashti's parchment

Pinnacles

Life Path Number
Month + Day + Year
May 2, 2059
5 + 2 + 2059
5 + 2 + (2+0+5+9)
5 + 2 + 16
5 + 2 + (1+6)
5 + 2 + 7
14
1 + 4
5

First Pinnacle = month of birth + day of birth
May + 2
5 + 2
7 (Cycle: 0 to 31)
SEVEN (7): This is a time of study, research, introspection or soul development, with favoring of education, study, and specialization. With a 7 Pinnacle, it's a time to be a bit of a recluse and loner, focusing on your individual views. Country living is an excellent way to learn to be alone, to learn about yourself, and do research for areas of specialization. With this Pinnacle comes great wisdom, which others will seek to have the unexplainable explained. As a 2nd or 3rd Pinnacle, the 7 provides an opportunity to cultivate your specialized skills; while as the last Pinnacle, it offers spiritual refinement and development during a time of inner analysis and developing of knowledge, which can be eventually shared with others.

Second Pinnacle = day of birth + year of birth
2 + 2059
2 + (2+0+5+9)
2 + 16
2 + (1+6)
2 + 7
9 (Cycle: 31 to 40)
NINE (9): This Pinnacle is known for emotional crises and you'll be expected to show a significant amount of compassion, tolerance, and love, while inspiring and uplifting others with your wisdom and caring nature. The 9 Pinnacle is a time for maturation and working through your emotions. This is not an easy Pinnacle because it is difficult to be loving and tolerant all the time; however, these things will have to be learned of this Pinnacle becomes one of great disappointment. Develop your global consciousness, intuition, and love for humanity during this time. As a First Pinnacle, this may be a time of early losses that bring early maturity. In the middle Pinnacles, this is a time of giving back to the world. As the last Pinnacle, it's a time of completion and material and spiritual wealth. During any position, you will be required to forget the self and develop into a true humanist.

Third Pinnacle = First Pinnacle + Second Pinnacle
7 + 9
16
1 + 6
7 (Cycle: 40 to 49)
SEVEN (7): This is a time of study, research, introspection or soul development, with favoring of education, study, and specialization. With a 7 Pinnacle, it's a time to be a bit of a recluse and loner, focusing on your individual views. Country living is an excellent way to learn to be alone, to learn about yourself, and do research for areas of specialization. With this Pinnacle comes great wisdom, which others will seek to have the unexplainable explained. As a 2nd or 3rd Pinnacle, the 7 provides an opportunity to cultivate your specialized skills; while as the last Pinnacle, it offers spiritual refinement and development during a time of inner analysis and developing of knowledge, which can be eventually shared with others.

Fourth Pinnacle = month of birth + year of birth
May + 2059
5 + (2+0+5+9)
5 + 16
5 + (1+6)
5 + 7
12
1 + 2
3 (Cycle: 49 and beyond)
THREE (3): During this time of your life, you will explore methods of personal expression, dealing with emotions, the imagination, and the creative spirit. Early in life, this Pinnacle revolves around seeking an imaginative and productive career. The middle Pinnacles serve to deal with your feelings and learn to speak what is in your heart. Later in life, this Pinnacle revolves around friends, the gratification of life, joy, and inventive expression. Overall, the energy of the number 3 Pinnacle is calling you to find joy and happiness, inviting you to live with a positive, optimistic outlook on life.

Challenges

First Challenge Number = day of birth - month of birth
2 - May
2 - 5
-3

Second Challenge Number = year of birth - day of birth
2059 - 2
(2+0+5+9) - 2
16 - 2
(1+6) - 2
7 - 2
5

Third Challenge Number = Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number
5 - 3
2

Fourth Challenge Number = year of birth - month of birth
2059 - May
(2+0+5+9) - 5
16 - 5
(1+6) - 5
7 - 5
2

Now for the meanings... Though after what her Pinnacles said, she probably didn't even want to know what her Challenges were going to say.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10420523)

"Yup. Thank you, Penny," Fina said at the young Hufflepuff girl. Zero... Cipher challenge... interesting.

Turning back toward the class, "If you haven't attempted so, feel free to begin work on calculating your challenge numbers and I'll be around to check your numbers." Hadley instructed, as she started first with a young Slytherin's parchment nearby....

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OOC: as an FYI, lesson with either close by 1pm tomorrow or when I get home from work at ~10:30pm. So keep this in mind if you want class participation credit for doing calculations =)

Penny listened up when Professor Hadley had spoken.... Frowning now...Wait, Cipher Challenge...is that good or bad - hurriedly looking up the textbook to see why it was 'interesting'.

SPOILER!!: Challenges

First Challenge Number = Day of Birth - Month of Birth
May 5th
05 - 05 =
0

ZERO (0): Also called the Cipher Challenge, it stands for all or nothing. The symbol of the circle, it can be full and empty at the same time. You have full free will to and choice to form your own world as one filled with love, compassion, integrity, vision, and to do great works. When governed by the 0 Challenge, do not take this time lightly. Nurture your desire to make the world a better place in consideration of your Destiny Number and the higher laws of universal order. The person with a 0 Challenge is said to have an 'old soul,' especially if you carry a master number as his or her Soul Number. You are expected to make choices that honor a higher awareness and foster spiritual growth on the material plane.

Second Challenge Number = Year of Birth - Day of Birth
2063, 05
(2+0+6+3) – (0+5)
11 – 5 =
6

SIX (6): When 6 is your Challenge, you're learning accountability for others and possibly experiencing burden from family obligations. Learn to attend to others and strike a balance between honoring your commitments to family and to yourself - a balance, meaning that you can't avoid either and must attend to both. Learn to avoid codependency and discover when loyalty, obedience, and the desire to be in charge of the household have stepped overboard. There is a tendency for this Challenge to be too stubborn and set in your opinions, so learn to transfer the energy from the negative to the positive qualities of the 6 - warmth, beauty, and nurturing.

Third Challenge Number = Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number
6 – 0 =
6

SIX (6): When 6 is your Challenge, you're learning accountability for others and possibly experiencing burden from family obligations. Learn to attend to others and strike a balance between honoring your commitments to family and to yourself - a balance, meaning that you can't avoid either and must attend to both. Learn to avoid codependency and discover when loyalty, obedience, and the desire to be in charge of the household have stepped overboard. There is a tendency for this Challenge to be too stubborn and set in your opinions, so learn to transfer the energy from the negative to the positive qualities of the 6 - warmth, beauty, and nurturing.

Fourth Challenge Number = Year of Birth - Month of Birth
2063, 05
(2+0+6+3) – (0+5)
11 – 5 =
6

SIX (6): When 6 is your Challenge, you're learning accountability for others and possibly experiencing burden from family obligations. Learn to attend to others and strike a balance between honoring your commitments to family and to yourself - a balance, meaning that you can't avoid either and must attend to both. Learn to avoid co-dependency and discover when loyalty, obedience, and the desire to be in charge of the household have stepped overboard. There is a tendency for this Challenge to be too stubborn and set in your opinions, so learn to transfer the energy from the negative to the positive qualities of the 6 - warmth, beauty, and nurturing.

Checking her work through, her only concern was about the second, third and fourth Challenge having the same number.... maybe her calculations weren't correct....

Penny was pleased though.... She hadn't expected to like this subject - but the past two lessons had been amazing - and now she actually enjoyed the whole maths thing :woot:

Presley sighed. More maths. She did not want to do this, but more than that, she wanted the points for her homework. How on earth was she supposed to get straight O's without doing work? Exactly. It wasn't possible.

SPOILER!!: Presley's Parchement

Three of her challenge numbers were 8. Was this a problem? Presley rechecked her work to make sure she hadn't made mistakes. She couldn't find any, but all the same they were probably there.

When the professor came by and told her she had a few mistakes on her paper she frowned slighly but was determined to fix them

Chloe's parchment all fixed up

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First Challenge Number
Day of Birth - Month of Birth

5 - 8 (August)
5 - 8 = -3

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of Birth

2056 - 5
(2 + 0 + 5 + 6) - 5
(13) - 6
4 - 5 = -1

Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number

-1- (-3)= -2

Challenge number #4
- month - year of birth

8 - 2056 = 8 - (2 + 0 + 5 + 6) =
8-13
8-4=4

Now she was pretty certain she got it.

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Originally Posted by Steelsheen (Post 10418926)

Alright! So he finally got the Professor's nod of approval. But then they moved on the next challenge which are... Challenges.

Huh.

SPOILER!!: Ellieness

He starts flipping through the pages looking what that was about when he felt someone scoot closer to him. "Hey there Ellie!" he greets her, an amused smirk on his lips. Yes her lil coloring book comment didnt slip by him. Alas comic relief aint free "Lost?.... oh with them number crunching?" he said as he tilted his head towards the board. "Sure, will try to help you out, but I gotta tell ya lotsa stuff slip by me." Case in point... the small pile of crumpled up parchments beside him.

Ellie nodded. Yes, she was lost with the number crunching. Or what numbers to crunch, even. Or she just didn't want to do anything but at least look like she was.

No, actually, she wanted to do something.

"That's alright. Any help's appreciated." She eyed his discarded parchments...but it was alright. Right? Some calculations were still better than none. So Hadley thought.

First Challenge Number
Novemeber 23 so it is 11-23= ( -12)
Second Challnge Nmber
Born 2063 ( 2+ 0+ 6 + 3) = 12 -23- ( Date of Birth) = ( -11)
Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number = ( -11) - First Challenge Number ( -12) = ( -23)
Fourth Challenge Number.
Year of Birth 2063 ( 2 + 0 + 6 + 3) =12 -Month of Birth (11) = 12-11= 1

Nika looked at the board and followed the examples to come up with her own challenge numbers.

SPOILER!!: Nika's Parchment w/ challenge numbers at the bottom

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Originally Posted by nogoodforyou (Post 10420549)

Ahh she did it alllll wrong.

"Oh. I thought there was just -" just... minus instead of plus. Uhhh. "Never mind," the girl mumbled, feeling her cheeks turn bright red. "Thank you."

SPOILER!!: even more numbers

There. This time it should be alright.

Walking by the young Slytherin's desk again, she glanced over at her parchment. "Yes, much better dear."

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Originally Posted by DanialRadFAN01 (Post 10420681)

SPOILER!!: Riley's Challenge Numbers

Pausing at the seventh year's desk, Fina was about to say good job, when she noticed something that wasn't really major. "It doesn't really appear to make a difference in this case, but the formula for the fourth challenge number is actually year of birth minus month of birth." And you know, he wrote it backwards and all.

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Originally Posted by Snape'sGirlThru&Thru (Post 10420716)

SPOILER!!: Vashti's parchment

Now for the meanings... Though after what her Pinnacles said, she probably didn't even want to know what her Challenges were going to say.

"Good job, Miss Greenwell," Fina said beaming at the fifth year's work. Oh yes, she fully expected excellent marks from Vashti Greenwell on her Arithmancy OWL this term.

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Originally Posted by Trish (Post 10420750)

Hm... well Penny had been off to a good start; of course the girl was only a first year, so Fina should have expected something to trip her up. Like the challenges. "Good, sort of. Except for your second and fourth challenge numbers, you'll want to further reduce your birth year down to a 2 before you subtract either your day or month of birth." Which meant her third challenge was wrong too, but surely the girl would pick up on that. Maybe?

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Originally Posted by Presley Black (Post 10420776)

SPOILER!!: Presley's Parchement

Three of her challenge numbers were 8. Was this a problem? Presley rechecked her work to make sure she hadn't made mistakes. She couldn't find any, but all the same they were probably there.

"Good, except it's always a good idea to write out what the formula is for each calculation before the actual calculation. Showing as much work as possible helps to eliminate errors, or at least be able to identify an error easily when it crops up," Fina suggested to the first year. "Basically showing work is always good when you're learning."

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Originally Posted by Herminny (Post 10420828)

When the professor came by and told her she had a few mistakes on her paper she frowned slighly but was determined to fix them

Chloe's parchment all fixed up

First Challenge Number
Day of Birth - Month of Birth

5 - 8 (August)
5 - 8 = -3

Second Challenge Number
Year of Birth - Day of Birth

2056 - 5
(2 + 0 + 5 + 6) - 5
(13) - 6
4 - 5 = -1

Third Challenge Number
Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number

-1- (-3)= -2

Challenge number #4
- month - year of birth

8 - 2056 = 8 - (2 + 0 + 5 + 6) =
8-13
8-4=4

Now she was pretty certain she got it.

"Better, yes," Josephina said, as she passed by the Lioness' desk again. "Except though it doesn't appear to make a difference in this case, make sure you know that the formula for the fourth challenge number is actually year of birth minus month of birth" You know, just in case the question cropped up on exam or something.

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Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley (Post 10421055)

Another young first year. Passing over his work, she frowned... "My dear boy, before you perform the subtraction operation, you'll want to always make sure you reduce the components to a single digit." She paused, looking at his first challenge number again. "So take your first challenge number, day of birth minus month of birth. 23 - 11; but 23 is 2 plus 3, so that reduces to 5. And the 11 is one plus one, which is two. So you'll end up with 5 - 2 for your first challenge number, which is 3." Always reduce. Didn't she drill that in enough to them? "Try your next three challenge numbers again."

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack (Post 10421200)

Nika looked at the board and followed the examples to come up with her own challenge numbers.

SPOILER!!: Nika's Parchment w/ challenge numbers at the bottom

Was it her or were there a lot of Gryffindors and Ravenclaws in her class? Passing by yet another Lioness, she glanced over the young second year's work and shook her head. "Good except that I think you've made a minor calculation error on your third challenge number." Yea, she totally wasn't sure where the girl got the one and the three.... Hm. Apparating numbers, perhaps?

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10421278)

Riley watched the Professor's face as she scanned his calculations, her eyes going back and forth over the ink on the page. He beamed, expecting immense praise...

"What?" he said looking at the parchment a bit disappointed, but hey he wasn't wrong at least! "Alright." The Gryffindor picked up his quill and fixed the set-up on the last Challenge number.

SPOILER!!: Fixed Forth Challenge number

Nika smiled then looked back down at her parchment to fix her third challenge number. Arithmancy is a challenge in itself.

SPOILER!!: Nika's Third Challenge Number

She looked up at her professor and raised her hand. "Am I supposed to reduce the 13?" She wasn't completely sure if she did that right. Arithmancy is not her subject.

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack (Post 10421309)

Nika smiled then looked back down at her parchment to fix her third challenge number. Arithmancy is a challenge in itself.

SPOILER!!: Nika's Third Challenge Number

She looked up at her professor and raised her hand. "Am I supposed to reduce the 13?" She wasn't completely sure if she did that right. Arithmancy is not her subject.

OH! Now she saw where Nika had been getting confused! "No... Well yes, but remember what I said about ignoring the negatives? So your second challenge number is just 8." That ought to help. Maybe.

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Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu (Post 10420836)

"Well ok lets see... uh, it says Challenges and there are four parts to it that has to be computed, like this here..." he said as he showed her the equation on the book

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First Challenge Number = day of birth - month of birth
Second Challenge Number = year of birth - day of birth
Third Challenge Number = Second Challenge Number - First Challenge Number
Fourth Challenge Number = year of birth - month of birth

He then took out a fresh parchment and started plugging in the numbers, making sure that Ellie was able to see how he does them...

SPOILER!!: Salander's parchment

He leaned back in his seat and lifted his parchment slightly, looking at the result of the 3rd challenge. "Professor, what does it mean if the Challenge number equals zero?"

OMG! *flails to catch up*

Ugh. Ugh, ugh, ugh...

When was class going to be over?! She'd had a terrible go at it this last hour--losing points, getting lost, and the such. What were they supposed to be doing again? Challenge Numbers?!

...what were those?! Blahhh...

She scanned her textbook for the directions and then got started.

Text Cut: Sierra's Parchment

First Challenge Number
day of birth - month of birth
17 - 3 = 14
1 + 4 = 5

FIVE (5): When 5 is your Challenge, you're learning to change and become more flexible. The love of changing rule can make others grow impatient and restless and desire freedom from rules and restrictions. Take a risk and loosen up despite the fear and confusion that change can bring. Learn to release yourself from restricting conduct that are limiting your creative energy.

Second Challenge Number
year of birth - day of birth
2062 - 17 = 2045
2 + 0 + 4 + 5 = 11
1 + 1 = Master Number 2

MASTER NUMBER ELEVEN (11/2): Learn to honor the demands of both the 11 and the 2. Constant vigilance is necessary to remain balanced emotionally and physically. Step up to the leadership role of the 11 using spiritual principles and recognize all the opportunities of the 2 - lessons of partnership and relationship.

Third Challenge Number
second challenge number - first challenge number
2 - 5 = -3

THREE (3): When 3 is your Challenge, you're learning to recognize your emotions and speak from the heart. Learn that your words have a significant influence on your life as you may be critical with your words. The negatives of the 3 must be overcome, so work to abandon superficiality, aggrandizement, gossip, conceitedness, and speaking just to hear yourself talk. Under the 3 Challenge, work to use your creative energy to form a loving, positive, and joyful spirit and realize pure, unadulterated happiness.

Fourth Challenge Number
year of birth - month of birth
2062 - 3 = 2059
2 + 0 + 5 + 9 = 16
1 + 6 = 7

SEVEN (7): When 7 is your Challenge, you're learning to overcome feelings of loneliness and isolation by using your energy to meditate and contemplate the meaning of life. This Challenge is one of the most serious times in your life. Learn to realize that your inner self is looking for experiences that will allow your personal growth. Learn to distinguish reality from incorrect knowledge and false views. Be more honest and true to yourself, connect to others, and learn to listen to yourself in order to encourage your ability to analyze and observe the world around you. Enhance your intuitive skills, examine philosophical and metaphysical material, and learn the universal laws of nature.

Umm...great. So what was she supposed to do about that negative number she'd gotten for the third challenge?! Did that even work the same?

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Originally Posted by PhoenixRising (Post 10421315)

Nika's mouth formed the perfect "o" shape as she nodded in realization. "Thank you Professor Hadley!" She turned back to her parchment to fix the mistake.

SPOILER!!: Nika's Third Challenge Number Hehe fixed it :P

Text Cut: Salllll

Textbook. That was rather handy. Unfortunately, it was also rather large and troublesome.

Friends were also rather handy. Especially friends that had textbooks. Sal was definitely one of those friends ~~now~~.

Ellie leaned over slightly to ~~copy~~ look off of Salander's parchment. And she followed his example.

Text Cut: Math. That.

Sometime, while doing all that ~~obnoxious~~ math, Ellie took to biting her lip. Unsurprisingly, too. But, she stopped once she was finished and pushed her parchment over to Salander. "Like that?" Sure, Hadley could probably tell her just as well. But Hadley was being a grumpy gills today.

Ooooh, Sal got zero? Yes, Hadley, what did that mean?

In fact, what did any of this mean, really? Tell us that.