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[mooch26]

Just an idea for a possible "story" made up from the resistor values:

12V - Car battery voltage (DC)
230K - Approx. number of Toyota Prius hybrids sold in U.S. so far.
5.5M - Total number of Toyota vehicles sold per year.
2.2K - 2200, the year we have until to stop CO2 emissions or else Greenland will melt
290M - The population of the U.S.
110 - Electrical outlet voltage in U.S. (AC)
770M - A UC Berkeley study showed if U.S. used plug-in hybrids, it would save 770 Million gallons of gasoline yearly.

Perhaps someone who has the Circuitous card (not me ) could try entering the name of a top Toyota employee, or some hybrid vehicle advocate or inventor? Anyone else have an idea for a different "story" using these figures?

[Snr Weaver]

I like your style Mooch!

Sounds good, especially when the switches are added into your story. This does seem to suggest that switching to fuel cells or hybrids would be a good idea.

Everyone seems to be ignoring Von's hint and taking a very litteral view of the card (not very silvery!)

I'll have a look around and see what else the numbers reveal. I don't have my card with me at the moment, so can't try anything.

[kalisco]

Nice work Mooch!
Suddenly the galvonometer looks like a speedometer, and the oddly drawn diode looks like a windscreen wiper !
Tried "Toyota" to eliminate Toyta Prius, Toyota Synergy, Toyota Hybrid - no joy there.
Couldn't find anyone who would be identifiable by a first name only.

[UKver2.0]

[ixalon]

And it isn't:

[ramsfan]

I really liked that idea too. It made sense of the numbers being in a different font, and if 20% were bought by women that would add to it.

[ixalon]

My other line of thinking (which hasn't come to anything more than the tree below) is to do with the way the logic 'circuits' segment the resistors. There are no circuits with both resistors and logic gates and the circuits with logic gates all start and end off the card, splitting it up into distinct areas. To me this suggested that we use the logic operators on the values in each area.

The circuits split the values up like this:


There could also be some zero's in there too (1 as another child of NOT and 4 as other children of EX-NOR).

[DarkHuman]

well, i might be too late for this, but i posted the card as a question on an electronic site, and the admin posted this:
"hmmm there are several components in that circuit not connected to anything . . .

there also appears to be an redundant switch . . .

it looks as if when both switches are closed, the speaker emits a noise for the time it takes the capacitor to charge.

and oddly the + end of the battery is connected to groun . . . definitely not normal for today.

one of the components looks like a microphone . . . making sounds into it can fluctuate the voltage, making the speaker create a similar sound . . .

i bet its an old telephone circuit!!!"

[Ringtail]

Well I thought the whole damn circuit was illogical

[ixalon]

[DarkHuman]

[highlanderrjw]

anyone tried alexander - graham bell?
probably already done, but links to the phone idea.

[LquiD]

Very sorry if its aready been posted but the addition of all the resistance is a unix time stamp.

I took the date string: 1065732310 from hendo77's post

[UKver2.0]

[el shiatzo131]

Did anyone realise that it's been solved? (Congrats, Ringtail!)

Working off Ringyl's post, I can rule out William, Kirk, and Enterprise.