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Can you break the code? (pg. 9)
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by Desiderata
How many more days til the unveiling of the code? |
Two days (on Friday). |
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| zGoogleman |
| Do you actually know what the code means? I don't have time to solve it, but really its easy if I took ten minutes out of my day, ****. |
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| bananas |
| Yeah, it's really easy if I took NINE minutes out of my day. |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by zGoogleman
Do you actually know what the code means? I don't have time to solve it, but really its easy if I took ten minutes out of my day, ****. |
Yes, I know what it means. I made it up myself.
I would be quite impressed if someone could solve it in only ten minutes. |
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| zGoogleman |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
Yes, I know what it means. I made it up myself.
I would be quite impressed if someone could solve it in only ten minutes. |
Yes, I have solved it. 24 minutes, but still it is solved. |
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| Desiderata |
| quote: | Originally posted by zGoogleman
Yes, I have solved it. 24 minutes, but still it is solved. |
I...I...I can't resist! Please post answer then. |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by zGoogleman
Yes, I have solved it. 24 minutes, but still it is solved. |
PM me your answer, and I will let you know if you got it. |
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| Tasty Onions |
Will be revealed tonight. Doubt anyone cares anymore. :p
For now, I am off to dinner. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
Will be revealed tonight. Doubt anyone cares anymore. |
I actually meant to get back to this but had more pressing matters. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the reveal. |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
Will be revealed tonight. Doubt anyone cares anymore. :p |
Okay, to encode a message with this code, here are the steps:
1. Make a list of the ASCII values for each character.
2. Make another list with as many items as the message has characters (i.e. for 100 character message, make a list 100 items long). In this list, put the numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...etc.
3. Going through both lists, divide the ASCII value by its corresponding number in the second list (for example, if the first character is "R", then the ASCII value is 82 and you divide it by 2). Save both the quotient (answer) and the remainder. So for that example, you would get (41, 0).
4. Now you have a new list full of paired quotients and remainders. Put a period between every number.
5. Convert all the numbers to base three (this is how you can represent the values with so few characters).
6. You should now have a long string that looks like this: "1112.0.220.1.", etc. Replace every "1" with "+", every "2" with "*", and every "0" with "-".
7. Put a space every five characters.
To decode, just reverse the whole thing: take out all the spaces, undo the symbol/number substitutions, convert the base three numbers back to base ten, multiply the resulting numbers by (2, 3, 4...) and add the remainders back, then convert the ASCII numbers into characters and remove the periods.
:p
Oh, and the messages (boring part):
First message: RIGHT, AS THE WORLD GOES, IS ONLY IN QUESTION BETWEEN EQUALS IN POWER, WHILE THE STRONG DO WHAT THEY CAN AND THE WEAK SUFFER WHAT THEY MUST. PASS IT ON. [was originally going to use it in the "pass it on" thread]
Second message: BUT DOES YOUR ASSEMBLAGE OF CHARACTERS MEAN ANYTHING? [written to Eddie, I think, when I thought he was replying to one of my messages with random characters] |
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| enydo |
| god this is sooooooo boring. |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
god this is sooooooo boring. |
Why read it, then? :clown: |
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