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[konamouse]

Items in Tile Box from Aglaura Auction

[kimer]

Re: Items in Tile Box from Aglaura Auction

[greywolf]

For some reason the pic came out really big. There are 3 columns of numbers.

Here's one a bit smaller.

This letter came from someone who "donated" it to the auction, Mrs. Dobbs decided it was appropriate to give it to me with the box, not sure why.

[LazarusLong]

Just to save the code gurus some typing, here are the numbers from Sarah's letter:

[catherwood]

Revised to fix a few typos:

[grumpyboy]

More good stuff from Elderofzion:

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The html. names of the thirteen sets of equations listed by Y2K contain 13 pairs of numbers, which when combined include all numbers from 1 to 26, without duplication (i.e., the alphabet). Somehow these equations form a link to converting strings of numbers to letters --

I'm thinking these rules are intended to apply to sarah's page, but I acknowledge that might be extremely wishful thinking on my part. It certainly is not a direct means of conversion. First of all, the equations do not contain all of the numbers that are in the letter page (nothing 12 or above, just in the headers themselves). Some htmls also have three equations, for a two number html.

EoZ

Swinging away into the darkness, hoping to spill a little light into a better mind's eye . . .
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[elderofzion]

more number crunching on the Sarah letter

[LazarusLong]

image rather than message?

[grumpyboy]

Initially I thought the grouping of 5 numbers may be arbitrary but after looking at it for a while, there seems to be too much pattern to totally ignore the groups. Here's what I found.

(1) All groups start 1 of 8 pairs of numbers. In order of their first appearance (occurances in brackets)

3 9 (7)
2 6 (2)
5 0 (8.) [ignore the ".", it's there so the it doesn't end up to be a smiley]
2 4 (4)
4 5 (7)
3 4 (5)
2 5 (5)
0 4 (7)

(2) Here's an interesting one. All groups start with 1 of 26 triplets of numbers. This time in numerical order because that in itself seems interesting as well (number of occurances in brackets)

0 4 1 (2)
0 4 2 (2)
0 4 3 (1)
0 4 4 (2)
2 4 1 (1)
2 4 2 (2)
2 4 3 (1)
2 5 1 (1)
2 5 2 (2)
2 5 3 (1)
2 5 4 (1)
2 6 1 (1)
2 6 2 (1)
3 4 1 (2)
3 4 2 (2)
3 4 4 (1)
3 9 1 (3)
3 9 3 (3)
3 9 4 (1)
4 5 1 (3)
4 5 2 (1)
4 5 3 (2)
4 5 4 (1)
5 0 1 (2)
5 0 2 (3)
5 0 3 (3)

Still running around in circles but thought I throw this out to see if it helps anyone else.

[catherwood]

Re: image rather than message?

[LazarusLong]

Based on the note accompnying the Fairy Book (found here:http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1402), it appears that the letter is not the puzzle, but it itself the KEY.

Hopefully this will be resolved once pages from the book are scanned and posted.

Alas, all those brain cycles trying to figure out the letter... all gone, like tears in the rain.

[greywolf]

fairybook

[MageSteff]

Re: fairybook

[grumpyboy]

Re: fairybook

[greywolf]

r/l