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[Sunny du Pree]

eeep

[Caterpillar]

Well I'm feeling like a complete idiot now...lol.
I still can't help seeing these as equations and it's really messing with my ability to see them any other way but anyway...

On 1+6.html.....If the 2 is a "C" then

1
+2 C
+6
10

Sort of becomes true because C is a 3 in standard form..(so then 1+3+6 does equal 10)

And if "A" is 3 then in

3 A
+7
10

Would the 7 have to become a 9(I) to make A(1)+?=10

Could we have to use a sort of cumulative/elimination strategy of some sort?

Does this make any sense at all?lol
I do realize we're not meant to "add", but I'm fresh out of ideas and thought it may give someone a new one...

[catherwood]

i don't know if I can jump in and help...

[Sunny du Pree]

email to psammeade: Ode to a Scribe

[Myssfitz]

Re: email to psammeade: Ode to a Scribe

[Caterpillar]

Re: SPEC:

[dmax]

Heh. Sorry, cem.

I thought the terms "jerk" and "brainfart" were enough to suggest that it had a more terrestrial generation.

And I hope everyone noticed that I changed "more matter, less art" from Hamlet into "more matter, less brainfart." I expect the Bard (or Bacon) to rise from his grave and murder me in my sleep tonight.

[Caterpillar]

S'kay Dan....lol

I've been busting my brain on this every day and came over and immediately just took in the part in quotations....and honestly, with all the clues we've been given I wouldn't have been surprised had he indeed responded in such a manner....(and judging by you spec. neither would you..lol)

I can't help but think this is going to have a big DOH!!! factor....

~cem

[Caterpillar]

Well I've been staring at these "equations" and "hints" for awhile and kept asking myself....if we only have to change 8 letters, why do we have the whole alphabet and thirteen pages?

Still don't know...but thought I'd post the following anyway, I know it's not correct because I haven't actually "transmuted" anything...but interesting nonetheless.

I went looking for the number "8" and took a look at the "totals" in the equations that Catherwood posted....and there are 8 "equations" totalling "4". So I converted the page name to letters (a column on the left and a column on the right).

0+4=4 on 23+24.html ..........W....X
0+4=4 on 14+25.html ..........N.....Y
2+2=4 on 15+20.html ..........O.....T
2+2=4 on 12+17.html ..........L......Q
2+2=4 on 2+13.html ............B.....M
3+1=4 on 9+11.html ............I......K
3+1=4 on 5+21.html ............E.....U
3+1=4 on 7+26.html ............G.....Z

What's interesting is that the left column unscrambles to WEB LOG IN....it's a coincidence I'm sure, but an interesting one I thought...and since no one's posting, I thought it might give someone an idea.

~cem

[Myssfitz]

Cem,

You're thinking on the same lines I am. Here is what I have come up with. Maybe this too will help someone else. I have many things running thru my mind, so please excuse if I jump around and confuse.

The last letter from psammead was titled "triplet". So the three triplets I found are:

1+6
2+2
3+1

I've been thinking that some of the "equations" equal the first numbers of the corresponding alphabet.What I mean is that one number present alot to be the "1" in 11-19 or the "2" in 21-26 and of course to represent the 1 or the 2 in the 1-9. Here are all the equations, in order, regardless of which page they belong on. I'm trying to find a connection.
There are 32 "equations" in all. So 6 are not as important, if at all.
Red are doubles.
Green are triplets.

0+1=1
0+4=4
0+4=4
0+5=5
0+6=6
0+7=7

1+1=2
1+1=2
1+2=3
1+2+6=10
1+4=4
1+5=5
1+6=7
1+6=7
1+6=7
1+7=8
1+7=8

2+1=3
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+2=4
2+7=9

3+1=4
3+1=4
3+1=4
3+2=5
3+7=10

4+1=5
4+1=5
4+3=7

5+0=5

9+2=11

I counted the numbers in the alphabet (regular, forward) to see how many of each number there is. Here is that list. Nothing matches up with the "equations" above.

There are:

12- 1's
10- 2's
3- 3's
3- 4's
3- 5's
3- 6's
2- 7's
2- 8's
2- 9's
2- 0's

Still searching...

[danman_d]

[kimer]

Spec: Greywethers Log In

[Caterpillar]

[Caterpillar]

We are told that the "+" sign does not denote addition.
We are also told that the "+" sign shows us which ones are the same.

No numeral in the equations goes above 11. Therefore I don't think any of the numbers in the equations transmute to actual letters.
In other words I don't think we're looking at something like:

H+R.html

I
+B
K

A
+D
E
(although...I've tried it...lol )

But if the numbers in the equations were to equate to the alphabet, why not only go to 8 (thereby assigning one numeral to one letter of ADINGOES)?....or have all the numerical equivalents of the alphabet somewhere in the equations.

So when "psam" says that the "+" sign tells us which ones are the same, what could he be referring to?
The same as what?

Either the equations denote a method of decrypting the same page names on which they are found, or they may point us to a manner in which to order the page names.

Just thinking out loud, please chime in....this seems to be a case of us missing something obvious.

~cem

EDIT: Just for...well...whatever...here are the numbers in the equations with a "+" sign to the left in the order they occur alphabetically.

720132612211121727264755116664741

[Caterpillar]