# New version of Math [duplicate]

This is a question I found in a book, let's see who can puzzle this out:

How is 7 half of 12?

• @Will oh, sorry. I didn't find that when I was looking for it as a duplicate. May 20 '16 at 17:23

I believe it is:

XII is 12, but VII (XII cut in half) is 7

• Wow, I honestly wasn't expecting a correct answer so soon, less than a minute after I posted it haha. Good job. May 20 '16 at 17:12
• Don't forget to mark it as the correct answer! May 20 '16 at 17:16
• @Yllrauei I would've marked it right away, but I'm required to wait before I mark it as the site won't let me until the question is 15 minutes old. May 20 '16 at 17:20

If you

Cut XII (12 in Roman numerals) in half along the horizontal, you get VII (7)

• I like that using the code font invalidates this riddle, as cutting XII in this font in half does not, in fact produce VII, but rather VTT May 20 '16 at 17:58
• @question-asker I didn't meant to nitpick at all. I apologize if that's how it came out. I was mostly amused that the answer to the riddle (or rather, whether or not it has an answer) depends on what font one uses. Perhaps I should have included a ":-)" in my original comment. :-) May 20 '16 at 18:01
• @PaulL OK! (PS - don't know why your comment ended up being addressed to dcfyj, but I got a notification anyway.) May 20 '16 at 18:02
• because I'm dumb and didn't realize your name actually was question_asker, and thought SE was telling me the asker of the question is the one who left the comment. I corrected it when I realized my mistake. May 20 '16 at 18:03
• @PaulL Ha! That's totally understandable! May 20 '16 at 18:04