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VQ.Wavecrest

I just tried emailing the address given asking for more info on that subject. We'll see how it goes Smile

**Posted:** Fri May 22, 2015 3:34 pm

Balmoth · Boot Joined: 10 Nov 2013 Posts: 41

Here is what I was trying. Doing the average of revenues (which are in order even after some have been changed)

This gave me a value close to 178. But I can't find a way to get this close to the 1100... binary value hinted

**Posted:** Fri May 22, 2015 5:59 pm

hunteress1114 · Boot Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51

Is there any way that the numbers that are misplaced could be unintentional? This puzzle seems pretty hard to figure out. Any significance of the "Node" Kyle mentioned in his new post?

**Posted:** Fri May 22, 2015 8:37 pm

benjaminsantiago · Boot Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23

heyyyy I wasn't getting any notifications from here and I tried to email the skateboarding website just to do it myself but never got a reply. DL'ing the video looking to see if anything is in there.

Hoping it leads to something about this node stuff. sounds interesting.

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 1:34 am

benjaminsantiago · Boot Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23

I'm curious/dubious about what the subject line for the email may be...I do some assembly programming (homebrew super nintendo) so I'm somewhat familiar with BINARY and ASCII encoding.

The thing is the way that microprocessors work, they process a certain amount of bits at a time (8/16/32/64...etc), because of this you usually don't remove the leading 0's as you would when you normally writing decimal numbers. For example, to encode 1 in ASCII it would be: 00110001

so as you add more ASCII characters you add another byte, that is 13 would be:

00110001 00110011

ASCII would was designed to make encoding numbers 0 - 9 easier to do, evidenced by the fact that the numbers are simply the binary representation of 48 00110000 + the binary value of the number, so 1 is 00110001, and 2 is 00110010, etc....My point is, it seems like overkill if the puzzle involves averaging numbers --> converting to the binary ASCII representation of each number

additionally the ASCII chart I'm looking at:
http://web.alfredstate.edu/weimandn/miscellaneous/ascii/ASCII%20Conversion%20Chart.gif

only encodes the values of the characters from 0 - 127 (127 in binary is 01111111, one before 10000000), so none of the characters, letters or numbers start with 1....I'm assuming I'm overthinking it though.

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 2:04 am

benjaminsantiago · Boot Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23

So here's my current guess, sent to the email address, hoping I get something, even if it is "wrong"

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 3:00 am

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 6:24 am

VQ.Wavecrest

Looking on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#ASCII_printable_code_chart

The subject was 1100... Could the ellipses be other numbers? If so, there's a few on there that'd be letters (a-k).

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 11:09 am

enocyaotl52 · Greenhorn Joined: 22 May 2015 Posts: 3

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 12:59 pm

hunteress1114 · Boot Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 51

I'm lost as well. No new ideas from me on this puzzle. Sad

Edit: Based on Sarah's post, I wonder if it could be the average amount of that picture of bills? I thought that at first but tossed it aside. Paying more attention to art and visuals kind of says to me that the revenues have nothing to do with this puzzle.

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 4:17 pm

booba · Unfictologist Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433

On the road, what is the mathematical symbol for AVERAGE in binary?

**Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 5:49 pm

VQ.Wavecrest

Sarah mentioned preferring visuals...

You think it could be referring to the visual of the money on the video? It had 100s and 50s. Average can be middle number... think it has anything to do with the number 75?

**Posted:** Sun May 24, 2015 9:26 pm

benjaminsantiago · Boot Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23

I'm lost...I've gotten no response from my email.

My thought was something to do with the color values of the background, the green and the brief flash of blue. Maybe a color between those two?

I'm not near my computer/the video but I believe the dollar signs in the beginning of the video are the same amount of symbols in the subject line if the dots are not an ellipsis.

My only other thought was maybe a weird (non alphanumeric) symbol in the expanded ASCII character set (128 - 256)....but I don't really know.
There's no symbol for average it is just a line above the variable name.

**Posted:** Sun May 24, 2015 9:54 pm

benjaminsantiago · Boot Joined: 18 May 2015 Posts: 23

So I emailed again, my current guess is:

**Posted:** Sun May 24, 2015 11:20 pm

VQ.Wavecrest

Ohhh, nice thinking Ben. I was focusing on the letters/numbers, the idea of using a symbol went right over my head!

Hopefully the PM replies Smile

(though they might not until Tuesday because of the holiday...)

**Posted:** Mon May 25, 2015 12:09 am