Touche.

Since istlaris won't be be back for a couple of hours...
I'll hijack his/her thread.

X*Y = A+B
A*B = X+Y
X>Y>A<B

Does Y = B? Or would answering that help me too much?

No on both question.

Does the * stand for "to the power of" or "multiplied by"?

Multiplied by.

Ista is definitely a guy, btw.

neoshagrath wrote: X*Y = A+B
A*B = X+Y
X>Y>A<B

I don't understand how this is possible, it took me long enough to work out two numbers for x,y that equal the same when added/multiplied together. But since the a,b set have to be different to the x,y set because of the greater-than sign, and yet still produce the exact same answer, I can't imagine what it might be. Tried working with negatives as well, didn't work. Clue?

Ace wrote:Ista is definitely a guy, btw.

There is no proof that he/she is definitely a guy.

@istalris
They are all single digit numbers.

It really is simple. Don't make it too complicated.

Ooh!
X = 2
Y = -2
A = -4
B = 0