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Flimsy · Post by **Flimsy** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 2:22 am

This is exactly how a thread should work.

Post by **Quantum P.** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:05 am

00111000100010000110000000000001000

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:20 am

Quantum P. wrote:00111000100010000110000000000001000

00111000 = 4+8+16 = 28 =

10001000 = 1+16 = 17 =

01100000 = 2 + 4 = 6 =

00000001 = 128 = 128 =

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN :(

Post by **Quantum P.** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:31 am

First of all, I probably should have said it's not ASCII (but I am impressed with your work!).

Second, it does not appear in your post, ironically. In fact, counting only post text, it has not yet occurred on this page, including this post (compared to two occurrences on page 2 and 3 occurrences on page 1).

Third hint: Frank Drake in Arecibo, Puerto Rico.

And don't get your hopes up; it's not like it means much.

Post by **Dr. Dos** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:33 am

I just wanted to show off how e2 taught me how to read binary by basically saying it was a set of switches which added 1,2,4,etc.

Then somebody at school for some reason was talking about it and was like WELL HOW DO YOU GET LETTERS THEN

and that's when i thought the value could correspond to an ASCII code.

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:18 am

00111 00010 00100 00110 00000 00000 01000 28,6,4,12,0,0,2

Ugh, that's all for tonight. I'm tired.

Post by **TTTPPP** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:45 am

Have I solved it? The answer is yes!

I have no idea how the third hint was meant to help at all though - who is Frank Drake when he's at home?

Also Oof, your arrangement of 7 lots of 5 isn't the best way to think of the numbers.

Post by **Quantum P.** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:26 pm

Are you saying that you got the answer (Have I solved it? ... [Y]es!), or that the answer itself is yes? Because the answer is not "yes," but if that's what you got, I'd like to know how!

Frank Drake was partially behind a fairly well-known message that was sent out at Arecibo in November 1974. The messages are similar.

And oof was right to notice that the digits can be divided up neatly...

Post by **Zenith Nadir** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:33 pm

only google knows the answer

however, i don't care enough to plumb its depth in the continuing quest for knowledge

superbowl shuffle · Post by **superbowl shuffle** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:27 pm

Well also there is Drake's Equation, which to be honest I didn't know about until I looked it up last night. The equation has seven factors and seven divides nicely into 35, so that was my guess. Of course two of those are zero so that wouldn't be a very fun answer. Maybe five groups of seven and then it will follow some code of 1=A 2=B which would be uncharacteristically unscientific of Quantum Pee. I'll look at it later because I have to go to the library soon -- ironically I'm going there to study maths!

Post by **TTTPPP** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:56 pm

Ok, so my post wasn't obvious enough.

The phrasing of "Have I solved..." was meant to clearly show Quantum P (that I knew) the answer.

I doubt that you could get the answer by using Google, although I may be wrong.

7 lots of 5 isn't the best way to think of the digits. 5 lots of 7 would be better...

And I would reciprocate with some subtle message in code, but the only coded message I think is suitable(!), would give it away.

Post by **Quantum P.** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:54 am

TTTPPP figured it out!

Post by **MadTom** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:54 am

Hey Quantum.

01010111010101110010101010101010100111010101010
11000010010101010101000100111011101010000000000
00000000111000111011101111010001000101010011100
0111011101011010001000101010110100010001010111

Dig?

nps · Post by **nps** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:14 am

New super code challenge!

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Post by **TTTPPP** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:21 am

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