how does this work...?

i received this in an email, and it really works!

>>Subject: FW: Age in Chocolate Years - this is so cool....
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>>Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood
>>anyway-but the Hershey Man will know!
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>>YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH
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>>This is pretty neat.
>>DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
>>It takes less than a minute .
>>Work this out as you read ...
>>Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
>>This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.
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>>1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would
>>like to have chocolate
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>>2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
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>>3. Add 5
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>>4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator
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>>5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1755 .....
>>If you haven't, add 1754.
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>>6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
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>>You should have a three digit number
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>>The first digit of this was your original number
>>(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).
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>>The next two numbers are
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>>YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
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>>THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2005) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND
>>WHILE IT LASTS.


try it out

 

apparently i wanted chocolate 17 times and i am 21....

 

holy shit.

that really worked.

its the magic of chocolate, i tell you

 

316 holy shit thats amazing

 

aha mine was 416. i want chocolate one more time than you do

 

Fatty

Joke

When did you have a birthday?

 

I've only just realised it says 16


Maybe....

Or maybe i'd realised before....

Either way...

 

100018...weird

 

LoL i had a bday at the beginning of august...it has said 16 the entire time i have been on here...

 

hmm i got the same

 

Well, I'm not 72 but it was close.

 

I got 720

So that totally worked. Awesome!

 

I had 972...

 

216..

i'm waiting for dave to come here and tell us all how it works and ruin hugh's magic

 

Lol, magic! If thats what you call it.

 

yeah come on dave come on...

i want to know

that sure is neat though

 

I don't follow prompts..... unless prompt = $p$g works to change them....

 

Ah, it is my evil nemisis,,,the algebra chocolate

 

ahha, it did work

wow

 

216 wtf how did that work?