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[JebJoya]

Well spotted kill_audio, so she's in trouble then, maybe we send her similarly encrypted messages?

Jeb

[Russell]

Just noticed the capitals myself, Paradoxic we have already discussed what you have raised about the commas in this thread. We believe its an anagram.

[JebJoya]

Right, took me a while but I got a reply off:

[Paulzilla]

Nicely done, and you guys made the capitalisation so naturalistic, it's pretty much invisible
I really should have picked up on that though - normally I'm pretty anal about people getting thier spelling and grammar right and get all shouty when it's wrong - I've even stopped shopping at places because of misplaced apostrophes (I figure if it's a major retail chain they should be able to afford an ad-man who knows English). Maybe I need help

aaanyway - there's still the random number thing (I'd swear it looks kinda familiar but I've no idea where from). Jeb - it's not in any number pattern you know of is it? Being a mathmo 'nall?

BTW, the Mathmos is a lake that feeds on evil in the film Barberaella. Just a random bit of trivia for you there

[JebJoya]

Just to remind anyone that'd forgotten (read: to remind me) the random numbers were:

[JebJoya]

Right, re: the numbers, I've looked at them and got nothing out so far, but I thought I'd post here so you don't all try as well:

* Prime factors:

3453=3*1151
2006=2*17*59
3905=5*11*71
4236=2*2*3*353
8056=2*2*2*19*53

Nothing obvious there

* Sum of rows and columns:

r1=15, r2=8, r3=17, r4=15, r5=19
c1=20, c2=15, c3=13, c4=25

Again, nothing obvious.

* Binary conversion:

Tried direct transfer to binary then decode using online tools (8-bit ascii), nothing came up reading in either rows or columns...

Any other ideas?

Jeb

PS. I think we may just be best to wait til we get a reply from Zoe?

[Paulzilla]

Probably, but I can't sleep and I need something to do to while away the midnight hours that isn't doing my web design coursework

Meh, it makes me happy... and frustrated. But mainly happy

I tried some of that too, was just about to post the lack of resultage. Spillting them into thier component digits and playing (though not in a hugely mathematically experienced way (I do computing so I don't have to do maths ) didn't seem to do anything either, though I am still exploring that one - don't expect anything really though.

[JebJoya]

That doesn't mean to say that I'm stopping lol Just that it might be the best way

[Paulzilla]

[JebJoya]

Right, prime factors... They're the smallest numbers that you can multiply stuff together by to get a number, and there is only one way of writing a number in terms of its prime factors (by the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, as it is known). e.g. 4=2*2, 6=2*3, 16=2*2*2*2, 17=17 (as 17 is prime, only factors are 1 and itself).

The use of these is to find whether there was any common divisor in the set of numbers (eg, they're all divisible by 13 or something), and also to see whether the numbers are anything special (like 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*3 or something) and whether there could be a code held in that. As it happens, they just appear to be numbers.

Meh

Jeb

[Paradoxic]

I'm sure people have noticed the cut off text that appears under the 100% about half way through the flash animation. Enlarging it and isolating it I ended up with what looks like the top of some letters.

Below is my modified image, the red line indicates the cutoff of the frame. Comparing to the other letters used in the flash animation, the diagonally cut tops are definitely lowercase t, the shape following them appear to be the dot on i or j. The curve matches the top of a lower case f and the last line can be the top of any verticle letter (l, h, d, b, k) or possibly an ' or !. I don't know what use it will be, but here you go.

[JebJoya]

yeah, i noticed it, but i dont know if anyone can like decode the flash or something and find in the code what that says? Meh, I don't know enough about flash tbh...

Jeb

[Russell]

Ok I have decompiled it and all it says is 100% "Satisfaction!".

Ok i have looked at every object in the flash and we have covered everything except that the writing on the monitor says FORM'A which im just guessing is a standard pic for a monitor when creating a flash.

[JebJoya]

Could "satisfaction!" be a password to something? Or maybe they're just not very good at flash?

Jeb

[Russell]

I would guess it wasnt intended to be cut off, but i could be wrong.

I think we have pretty much ripped as much out of the site as we can at present and just need to recap on what we have.