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[peter_magenheimer]

Puzzles for all! (Puzzle #2)

[hakab2060]

[Slyfox]

*SPEC* The numeral 1 seems to appear quite a lot. This makes me wonder if we need to read some of them as double digit numbers, e.g. 11

[Caterpillar]

I agree:

93 11 28 11 36 11 21 11 10 11 38 67
28 11 05 14 23 11 91 85 73 15 21 11
24 11 47 18 23 11 91 27 58 12 42 17
51 89 11 18 54 12 84 06 75 11 85 91
35 11 85 93 02 11 57 14 13 11 25 49
98 11 66 11 45 11 81 11 27 14 31 11
77 11 22 85 43 11 87 93 34 10 03 12
41 91 71 11 56 44 11 01 20 63 17 17

(I don't know what to do with it yet, but posted it for reference)

[BrianEnigma]

I'm not sure if it helps, but here are some of the number frequencies...

2-digit
Item "11" has count 24
Item "85" has count 4
Item "91" has count 4
Item "17" has count 3
Item "14" has count 3
...etc...

3-digit
Item "311" has count 3
Item "185" has count 2
Item "211" has count 2
Item "113" has count 2
Item "111" has count 2
...etc...

Looking at them as 2-digit numbers shows thirteen numbers that occur more than once (11, 85, 91, 17, 14, 12, 93, 28, 27, 23, 21, 18, 10) and 39 that only occur once (24% repeat). Looking at them as 3-digit numbers shows six that occur more than once (311, 185, 211, 113, 111, 110) and 50 that only show up once (10%).

It does look like 2-digit combinations are pretty likely, but I'm not sure I would discount the 3-digit combos either. The fact that 11 jumps out above the others in 2-digit combos is kind of odd. It makes me think that it is perhaps some kind of delimiter? Also the number distribution seems a little wide--ranging from 01 at the lowest and 98 the highest.

One question: did the character count, begin content and end content phrases appear in the file, or are they output from jpseek? I cannot seem to get jphide/jpseek to compile, as they have Intel-specific assembly code.

[hakab2060]

[grumpyboy]

[peter_magenheimer]

Wow, grumpyboy's in with the breakaway win! Good job, grumpy.

I'll have puzzle #3 up soon (and since everyone was considerate enough to put their progress in spoiler tags, other people can try to solve this one as well )

EDIT: Oh yeah, grumpyboy, how did you figure out where I got the picture from?

[Slyfox]

Prehaps grumpyboy is an angram of TOBI?

[konamouse]

And yet again, this proves the unforum addage: if there is a puzzle to solve, go to bed and when you wake up, grumpyboy will have solved it.

[grumpyboy]

[peter_magenheimer]

Yeah, that's what I thought. I was just wondering if you had some sort of really cool picture searching/matching software that you used .