Fun counting math puzzle

I should have never opened this thread. Damn you Necro! This thing is going to plague me now.

I'm not even gonna try it. It's a nice puzzle though, I just don't like doing math.

man Xaven
did you derive or did you graph the original, because deriving this would have a chain of like 1543443264326

:cry:

brb slitting writsts

OMG! Xaven is right. I had it when I said I had up to four pirates and just didn't realize it. (SPOILER)I just got to 2496 and said, "oh, that doesn't work because 2496/4 = 624 and I need a number that ends in 9" forgetting that all I had to do was multiply 624 by 5 then add one to get the answer rather than continuing on another step. I just worked it out by trial and error, recognizing some patterns so I really only had to try about 15 sets of numbers.

Anyone want my work?

Yes!

I made a grid like so:
(SPOILER)
3121 | 624
2496 | 499
1996 | 399
1596 | 319
1276 | 255


of course I got to top right and said "oh, this won't work" even though I was one step from the answer, because I am dumb.

And Del pats himself on the back for others' accomplishments.

Is that how it works in Staff, too? :p

Whoops. Just deleted my post. Del, can you put it back?

I'll add the pictures in a sec...

and I do Del's work for him!

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

And Del pats himself on the back for others' accomplishments.

Is that how it works in Staff, too? :p

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Way to make me look bad Xaven.

But yes.

ahahahahahahahahahahaha

xDDDD

That deleted post was brilliantly timed.

Good job, Xaven. You shall now forever be known in my heart as a good man.

And here they are, big as ever.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ke/Workkk2.jpg
Tada? Yeah, not too impressive.

The other picture is of the other side of the paper which I did first. I didn't quite know what I was doing at the time hence the unposted scribbles.

so is there a more direct way to solve this other than trial and error? Some solution involving modular arithmetic?