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[Flidget Jerome]

[jazzysixx]

I've tried taking the numbers and using them to correspond to the letters in the name of the element the box represents, but, no luck there either. Just gibberish any way I try to decode. Maybe someone else would like to try. I'm short a few brain cells this morning as my 9 month old has decided to get up in the middle of the night again.

[enaxor]

[Marrec]

[InSoM]

7-i

i read it as Li - i

in other words L

[toongoon]

Periods

[Ehsan]

If each number equals the symbol on the squares then we have:
1 = P
2 = C
3 = B
4 = Sb
..and so on. This might give us a string of characters we need to decode..


What's bothering me is the 7-i and 6+6. If we follow the above theory:

7-i = Li
7 = Li + i
7 = Lii

Then:

6+6 = S
6 = S/2 (which doesn't work)

Or:

6+6 = S
6 = S-6
6 = M

If we follow this, we have a string of characters from 1 to 9..

Alternatively, the digit could be the entire element, and the operation tells you what to do with it:

7 - i = Li - i = L
6+6 = S + S = SS

If we do this, we don't have a specific value for all digits. For example, 7 is Li but the answer we got is L. So it doesn't decode directly to the number sequence.. Which is why I don't like this approach.


And all of this still doesn't apply to "3,7". I have no idea what to do with that since it's only one letter (F), and 3,7 according to the above gives different results such as BL or BLII.

[Ashurbanipal]

could the number represent the number of a character in the element name?

for example, Boron = 3, 3rd charatcter is r
Carbon = 2, 2nd character is a
Flourine = 3,7 so we have o,a

but not sure how the 7 - i or 6+6 bits would fit in

[toongoon]

In a slightly different direction I have been try to order the element abbreviations in order of atomic weight such that you get this

LBCFPSSbTbBkRf

where I assumed 7-i means Li = L

I then used the atomic weight order of the replaced numbers such that the 7th letter from above goes first, the 2 letter is C above etc. again the problem is the 6+6 does this equal 12 or two s's

not much luck that direction either...

Could "chemistry" be a key?

[Phaedra]

Well, this isn't going to solve the puzzle, but in unrelated news, I received an email from Faery last night.

Relevant section:

[toongoon]

FYI

Title of periodic table page chaged to "how 'bout that?"

just noticed that the numbers also have subscripts now.

[rose]

Dubnium was originally hahnium

[enaxor]

oh oh, the vagabondssojourn website is down. Can anyone else access it?

[Tiny]

There are 3 levels of hell, Incotinence, Violence and Fraud. These three divisions encompass 7 circles of hell. After that there are trimmers and heathens which are not accepted by either side of the gate but are included in Inferno. As well as Heathens which are not counted amongst the seven circles of hell but are more of a side group amongst the Incotinence sub level. Including those three sinners there are actually 24 different types of sins which are divided amongst the hell told by Virgil. I'm in the middle of reading it and my copy has a huge and amazing explanation before the first canto. But theres your crash course in it. Oh and by the way, the whole of Inferno took place in one week, either the week of or before easter.
Oh and the page is down for me now too, I wonder whats going on...
Tj-
Edit I just noticed I didn't write down an of the divisions save those three, here they are in order.
Trimmers
Heathens
Incontinence*First level*
Carnality
Gluttony
Avarice
Anger
Heratics*not included in either Incontinence or Violence*
Violence or Brutishness*Second level*
Violent *Against nieghbor, god, self*
Fraud or Malice *Third level*"
Simple
Treacherous- Lucifer is found here
Those two are divided into 14 sublevels which are shared between Violence as well
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