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[cthrag yaska]

No solution, just a note of what I've tried:

I'm new to Perplexcity, and only got this card last week. I held off from looking through this thread until I'd had a chance to think about it over the weekend. My reasoning went similar to ideas at the beginning of the thread: they cannot want a proof of Riemann's hypothesis; even if they did, there's no way anyone would enter it word-for-word, character-for-character perfect; even if they did, it would never fit in the edit box. This chain, plus the mathematical connection gave me an "ah-ha" of trying Fermat's marginal notes:

[GasparLewis]

I can safely confirm that the Claymath and Wolfram sites are strictly OOG, if perhaps resources.

The Clay Prizes are an absolute fact, and existed far before even Syzygy.
And Wolfram... well, being a math nerd, I'd visited it long, long before PXC.

If we want to go at it the literal way, then those are the places to go, but otherwise a dead end.

(Though I do enjoy goofng around with the 3D geometry Java applets... )

[oliverkeers13]

Well I have 2 of this card, they both have black smudges in the middle at the top, but they are in different places, and of different shapes. However, there is a diagonal line in the I of CITY of PERPLEXCITY which appears in both.

[locqust]

I got the same smudges

[poozle]

I got the same bit in my i, and a smudgey bit in the top silvery bit.

[The First Speaker]

The line in the I of CITY is on all the cards; it's just white in the rest as this card has inverted colours in the info bar.

My card DOESN'T have the marks in the silver at the top, so I don't see how it can be anything significant

There must be something in the text we are missing, some little clue as to what the puzzle is all about. I've read and re-read it numerous times though and still can't make head to tail of it

[TheBoy]

Having just examined this card under a microscope I can confirm that the smudge at the top and in the I of PERPLEXCITY appear to nothing more than just printing smudges.

[poozle]

If you look at the card it doesn't actually ask you to prove this, it just tells you about it. I am examining this card to see if there is anything on it of any use, question like, but I can't find anything except other smudges and things (like between the h and i on the while at the beginnning of the 2nd paragraph) which I'm sure are completely useless.

EDIT: I was going to try entering the prime mentioned on the card 7235733 digits long as the answer to thing, i found a text file with it in BUT its still being downloaded, I've got 3mb left to go, lol, will let ya know how I get on (btw the file is here. I don't recomend trying it though, I've got to remove the enters from it now.

[doublecross]

It was trying that very thing that I established that the maximum length that the text box will work with when you press submit as 1950 characters or thereabouts. Entering that number of characters from the largest prime is not the correct answer.

[poozle]

Thanks for telling me that, I've just saved my computer from a long time of removing lines from the thing, LOL

[TheBozzball]

This isn't even an idea, but if you have a many-to-one code where
A,R->7
I->2
E,N->3
M->5

then RIEMANN reads 7235733. My point is that they are both 7 characters long and end with double characters. This is not much of a point.

[ryandrew]

I emailed hintsSPLATperplexcity.com a few days ago, saying this:

[locqust]

Well basically that brings us back to the "secret message" idea.

Lets face it they wouldnt put a puzzle on a card that would win you $1 million if solved for a game to win £100,000! Or would they....

Only a couple of things I can think of.

Either we need to rearrange or take away some of the visible letters on the card.

or

find a hidden message on the card itself, by UV, IR or even X ray!?!

But this is stuff already mentioned before.

Just looking quickly at the card has anybody else noticed that the equation is slightly blurred around the edges? printing error? or possibly something else?

[Sherlock Gnome]

[Belogroak]

[quote="Sherlock Gnome
Is it just me or is the link on von's hint non-existent or out of date? It opens an expired page then transfers me to another? Is it a secret hint?

[/quote]

No Sherlock its not just you. The link is actually case sensitive to the R and H and should be RiemannHypothesis not riemannhypothesis.

Given that this article refers several times to a "critical line" or "critical strip" likelihood is that the line on the card others have mentioned holds the key.

Alternatively, it may just be some obscure connection to a Beautiful mind and neuro-inhibitors!

Regards

Bel