From time to time, the Universe tests the natural evolution of the mind of human species. The 2012 hoopla is an example. The subject spread around like Spanish flu and became familiar to the point of Hollywood capitalizing on the notoriety.
The principle of the test calls for completing a statement with characters that seem to fit the circumstances. Before anything, when the collection of those four digits 2012 is interpreted as a year, there are two ways to verbalize it:
1) 2012 = "year twenty twelve"
2) 2012 = "year two thousand twelve"
Lets start with (1) where 2012 is separated. The functional separation has three parts (a), (b), and (c) where (a) looks like this
a) 20_______?________12
and asks for completing the space between 20 and 12 given the overall "flavor" of that time period bestowed upon it by all the jolly catastrophic predictions. So the general guide for the completion of (a) is described by one word: negative.
The (b) and (c) questions are based on the fact that the Mayan Great Cycle ENDS in 2012(Gregorian). That means 20 and 12 are positioned at the end of the statements to be completed. This also affects the order: the number that ends statement (a) starts the (b) and (c) parts of the test.
b) ______?______12
c)_______?______20
The last statement (d) to be completed is formulated by the (2) option where 20 and 12 are kept together and the formulation is also based on the concept of END and additionally on the fact that Mayans were an ancient civilization, so they lived in the past. That means the number 2012 appears as a closing statement that is reversed
d) 2012_______?_______
and you are solving from right to left. (When we check what we've written (past) we go to the left, whereas the words to be written (future) will appear to the right.)
Note that 2012 is a collection of four digits. Hence the four question (a), (b), (c), and (d).
Here is a very important note to the solution which doesn't pretend to be analytically unique and just calls for the best option: all four answers must be very closely related.
The strategy to the solution: The answer to (a) seems to be the pilot. Once you realize the trick, the rest is a matter of a rational association based on a clue.
I personally flunked the test big time and had to be told. But I believe that if someone comes up with the preferable solution, then the United Nations should provide all the necessary means for that person, if male, to be set apart for breeding purposes providing that there are at least a couple of thousand young females around who do care about the future of mankind.
The principle of the test calls for completing a statement with characters that seem to fit the circumstances. Before anything, when the collection of those four digits 2012 is interpreted as a year, there are two ways to verbalize it:
1) 2012 = "year twenty twelve"
2) 2012 = "year two thousand twelve"
Lets start with (1) where 2012 is separated. The functional separation has three parts (a), (b), and (c) where (a) looks like this
a) 20_______?________12
and asks for completing the space between 20 and 12 given the overall "flavor" of that time period bestowed upon it by all the jolly catastrophic predictions. So the general guide for the completion of (a) is described by one word: negative.
The (b) and (c) questions are based on the fact that the Mayan Great Cycle ENDS in 2012(Gregorian). That means 20 and 12 are positioned at the end of the statements to be completed. This also affects the order: the number that ends statement (a) starts the (b) and (c) parts of the test.
b) ______?______12
c)_______?______20
The last statement (d) to be completed is formulated by the (2) option where 20 and 12 are kept together and the formulation is also based on the concept of END and additionally on the fact that Mayans were an ancient civilization, so they lived in the past. That means the number 2012 appears as a closing statement that is reversed
d) 2012_______?_______
and you are solving from right to left. (When we check what we've written (past) we go to the left, whereas the words to be written (future) will appear to the right.)
Note that 2012 is a collection of four digits. Hence the four question (a), (b), (c), and (d).
Here is a very important note to the solution which doesn't pretend to be analytically unique and just calls for the best option: all four answers must be very closely related.
The strategy to the solution: The answer to (a) seems to be the pilot. Once you realize the trick, the rest is a matter of a rational association based on a clue.
I personally flunked the test big time and had to be told. But I believe that if someone comes up with the preferable solution, then the United Nations should provide all the necessary means for that person, if male, to be set apart for breeding purposes providing that there are at least a couple of thousand young females around who do care about the future of mankind.
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