Puzzler Answer, Week of 6/01, AN 270

Ray: You're driving in your automobile on a fine spring afternoon in your fair city, and you see in front of you another car with an interesting license plate. And the license plate has 6 characters. They are T-A-N 2-7-0. The question is: What make of car is the license plate attached to? That's it; elegant in its simplicity.

Tom: And the hint?

Ray: The hint was high school.

Tom: That was a lousy hint.

Ray: I don't think so.

Tom: Well, maybe not, I mean, after you know the answer. The hint sure didn't help me. I'm embarrassed to have not jumped right on it. Only Ken Rogers jumped right on it.

Ray: Well, that's because when I said it to him I didn't say,"T-A-N." I said, "Tan270." And he immediately started saying, "What's the tangent of 270, let me see, sine over the cosine..." The answer is infinity. Hence the car, the license plate.

Ray: There's a car named Infinity?

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