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[LOCKED] [PUZZLE] [SPEC] 24-digit postcard number
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Foz
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Re: USPS tracking code

revelling wrote:
I put the number into the USPS tracking service web page and found that the number is a valid object in the postal system, or has been in the past few months or so. But that no tracking had been purchased for the item. I tried a few other numbers 24 digit numbers close to the number, these were all valid, but again not tracked. Quite a few numbers gave valid hits, including the reversed number.


Good find, but there is a problem with that theory, I think. These postcards weren't mailed from within "our" delivery systems. There is a possibility that they were sent via the "Perplex City Postal Service". In any event, the cards do not show any true "Postal" markings suggesting [OOG] that they weren't actually mailed.[/OOG]

P.S. Forgive the excess quotes...Anyway, I'm going to get back to work with my mad "scientists" so we can finish our "laser".

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Google bosses Sig

G'day all. I used to play metacortechs when it was running and I hope I can offer some input into this arg ( couldn't help myself Im addicted to arg's). I have lost my old nick which was invfish. Hi to r4bbit and Anthrax101 if you are still out there?

Anyway's. My interpretation of Google Bosses sig would be either:

a) entering Sente (Bosses Signature) into www.googlism.com (which does return some interesting results, especially about a 3d java game and a new game being released).

b) The sig being the the address at the bottom of the letter. If you google the address as ""1 taversen sq" it shows you that taversen is an anagram of traverse. Which I think is cute: One traverse square. i.e. something like a rubic's cube =)

traverse on dictionary.com :
To move to the side or back and forth.
To turn laterally; swivel.

Anyway's that is my two cent's. I hope it inspires =)

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Seej
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Re: Google bosses Sig

songofthephoenix wrote:
.....it shows you that taversen is an anagram of traverse......

Um, no it isn't.

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Re: Google bosses Sig

songofthephoenix wrote:
The sig being the the address at the bottom of the letter.


Surely that would bring the instruction Google the address at the bottom of the letter. I expect the sig is probably the sig[nature] - Sente. Anyway Taversen Square has been googled to bits.

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I realised it wasn't an anagram after I posted it. hehe. oh well. Google still ask's did you mean 'traverse'.

From my knowledge of arg's. Everything is a clue and everything is not without reason. The most simple thing's are the thing's that are most commonly overlooked. You can grab one thing and chew it to piece's until it form's it's own diety. However, sometime's this need's to be done. I am assuming that because of the size of this, complexity is going to be driven deeply.

If it was to do with traverse.. then the letter n is outside of it. It could be an algorithm? something like.. variable = n to the power of 2.

It might not have to do with anything.. but then again it might? *shrugs*

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The number 221545484848465100503215
can briken down to a group of 8 triplets:
(r,g,b) (2,2,1), (5,4,5), (4,8,4), (8,4,8 ), (4,6,5), (1,0,0), (5,0,3), (2,1,5)
I was thinking of what comes in triples and I thought of color space.
1 would be 10%, 2 would be 20%, ... 0 would be 100%
You get 2 cubed colors = 8 colors but I do not know what to do with this.
If you convert the RGB values to HSB values you could use these as vectors for direction and distance.

(5,4,5), (8,4,8 ) are the same color with different saturation and brightness.
(4,8,4) and (8,4,8 ) complementary colors.
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Violet
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Hello World,

Am new to the whole forum gig, but the 24 digit number's really got me. Has anyone tried music?

Cheers me dears,

Violet Wink

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Violet wrote:
Am new to the whole forum gig, but the 24 digit number's really got me. Has anyone tried music?

Yes - The Wiki has details of things we've already tried and both Tanner and newzgrl (see previous page in this thread and use search to find Tanner's posts) have tried different ways to make this happen.

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Violet
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Yeah, have checked that out, but as I say I'm a bit new to this, I don't know how the guy came up with the string of notes he's got, but I've got:

D D C G| F G F (top)C| F (top)C F (top)C| F A G C| (rest) (rest) G (rest)| E D C G|

It rings a bell, especially the last bar, though I don't know a lot about music, so I could just be making it up!

Violet

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Violet wrote:
Yeah, have checked that out, but as I say I'm a bit new to this, I don't know how the guy came up with the string of notes he's got, but I've got:

D D C G| F G F (top)C| F (top)C F (top)C| F A G C| (rest) (rest) G (rest)| E D C G|

It rings a bell, especially the last bar, though I don't know a lot about music, so I could just be making it up!

Violet

well, here's a midi file with the above notes if anyone is interested in hearing it...
PPC[24 digits tune]v_Violet.mid
Description  a midi song with Violet's notes
mid

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Filename  PPC[24 digits tune]v_Violet.mid 
Filesize  338Bytes 
Downloaded  415 Time(s) 
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Violet
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Violet[/quote]
well, here's a midi file with the above notes if anyone is interested in hearing it...[/quote]

thanku for doing that, I'm not good with translating things onto the computer, so I appreciate it! It's probably nothing, but worth a try I think!

Violet x

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EDCG sounds like the third bar of that song you always hear on big clocks that chime the time... i haven't listened to it, but as a musician i can hear those intervals... that's what i think it sounds like.

Add-on: 5 minutes later: OK, so I got to my piano, yeah... that's exactly what it sounds like. [self-satisfaction] who's good? [/self-satisfaction]

The rest of it doesn't sound real familiar to me... but i'm gonna pass it around among friends and see if it rings a bell (percussionist joke... sorry)

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Perhap's there is more we need to work out before the number will make sense? or perhap's it has something to do with the pattern that is above it?

With the pattern.. I am thinking that it is along the same kinda line as how the binary was worked out. lights being on and off. the pattern being a grid with white being on and black being off. The pattern has some weird features. Both the top and the left hand side are on / off, on / off etc. Then for some reason the next row is slightly thrown off. Then again and again. It's not symmetrical so it must include a code of some kind. Being that the sides have symmetary and the rest doesn't.

If we work out the offset of the symmetary with have the code.

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Lat/Lon and Julian Date?

Wild spec, but there are 24 digits. typical lat/lon's take 6 digits each. Julian date is 7digits . 5 digits

Tried some combinations, but end up somewhere in Libya in the year 4107. If anyone wants to play with this idea, you can convert Julian dates here, and look at lat/lon's here

just a thought... Rolling Eyes
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well, don't try converting it to ascii or ebcdic, or playing around with it, and then converting it, cause it ends up gibberish.
converting the ZAX from the video might give SOMETHING, but i have to feel that it might give something totally oog.
my latest spec about the number is that we should run a frequency analysis on it, OR treat the numbers as frequency values [on a scale of ten]. see http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode.html and get what i mean. Smile

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