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Jay
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KevDude wrote:
Now we just have to solve the maze puzzle and the large number. Someone should try the same thing on the large number.


First five letters confirm that this is the case!

"../--/..-/.../-" = "IMUST" = "I must"

This was complete chance, because I got so fed up with trying all the combinations that I started randomly clicking all over the text box and pressing spacebar and, on the first try, this is what came out!
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 		So... Now just the maze is left?

edit- Oh wait, thats incomplete, isn't it...

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KevDude wrote:
Now we just have to solve the maze puzzle and the large number. Someone should try the same thing on the large number.


I thought about that, but the binary for a 24 digit decimal would be huge
(perhaps 100 digits). There would be hundreds, perhaps a thousand
ways of interpreting that in Morse Code. This is because characters in
Morse Code can have anwhere from 1 to 6 digits.
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StarryNight wrote:
KevDude wrote:
Now we just have to solve the maze puzzle and the large number. Someone should try the same thing on the large number.


I thought about that, but the binary for a 24 digit decimal would be huge (perhaps 100 digits). There would be hundreds, perhaps a thousand ways of interpreting that in Morse Code. This is because characters in Morse Code can have anwhere from 1 to 6 digits.

This si true; even though I have gleaned some seemingly meaningful text out of this by pure chance, it could be equally pure chance that "I MUST" shows up at all!

But, it does give us something with which we can work!

EDIT: I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for getting so excited over the "IMUST" find. I realized pretty soon afterwards the staggering number of possible outcomes and the fact that I got that was pretty lucky. I'm assuming that I got so excited because I thought I had found a breakthrough! Smile
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StarryNight wrote:
KevDude wrote:
Now we just have to solve the maze puzzle and the large number. Someone should try the same thing on the large number.


I thought about that, but the binary for a 24 digit decimal would be huge (perhaps 100 digits). There would be hundreds, perhaps a thousand ways of interpreting that in Morse Code. This is because characters in Morse Code can have anwhere from 1 to 6 digits.


What about splitting it into 6 groups of 4 and then converting or will this give the same result?

[edit] Am i talking crap cos I'm a bit tired?

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 		I posted the binary here.

Code:
Base 10: 221545484848465100503215
Base 2: 101110111010100000000100111010011111110110010011000000001110010111100010101111


I think it's correct if someone wants to check it for me.

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AnthraX101 wrote:
I posted the binary here.

Code:
Base 10: 221545484848465100503215
Base 2: 1011101110101000000001001110100111
11110110010011000000001110010111100010101111


I think it's correct if someone wants to check it for me.

AnthraX101


I got :
Code:
0011001000110010001100010011010
100110100001101010011010000111
000001101000011100000110100001
110000011010000110110001101010
0110001001100000011000000110101
0011000000110011001100100011000
10011010100100000

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 		Re: 2210 symmetry
StarryNight wrote:
This may be nothing, but I didn't find it in a search. There is an interesting symmetry in the number 2210 when you write it in binary

decimal: 2210
binary: 100010 100010

I've also tried interpretting the binary as morse code. The only reasonable solution is to interpret 1 as '-' and 0 as '.'. Breaking it up this way:

-. .. - . -. .. - . you get:
N I T E N I T E which goes with the "Perplex City Sleeps" picture. Very Happy


okie dokie, i was excited when i saw all of that... but then

hmmm...
Confused

isnt 2210 in binary :

00110010001100100011000100110000

but hey wait, havnt we seen that 00110010001 somewhere before?
00110010001
.. -- ..- ... - i must so i guess whatever has 221 in it, will have i must (at some random guessage of spacing)


oh no looks like a -.. . .- -.. . -. -..

shucks. if it was morse code, i suspect the key would be in decoding 2210, which having less .'s and -'s to deal with, might prove easier.

(least we're all learning something new : morse code Razz) - or maybe its still kanji Wink

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 		Re: 2210 symmetry
Yeah, I never even thought to check the original! 2210 does come out to 00110010001100100011000100110000, and not 100010100010

Aww, sad. But it's okay

Good catch, firefox
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 		Using the online tools I get that:

The ascii string "2210" converts to 00110010001100100011000100110000
while the 10base number 2210 converts to 100010100010

Surprised

I still think nitenite is the right one

First post BTW

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Patcher wrote:
Using the online tools I get that:

The ascii string "2210" converts to 00110010001100100011000100110000
while the 10base number 2210 converts to 100010100010

Surprised

I still think nitenite is the right one

First post BTW


wowe Laughing well, how does one do the 10base to binary conversion? because it looks likely that indeed the rest of the 24digit no. requires the same conversion, and not the ascii one, we/i have been doing.

and truly, i am glad i was wrong (partially). because nitenite did look likely Wink

edit: divide by 2 for a very long time, and use remainders, perhaps you have a link to an online doo-hicky? *thank you*

which would mean anthrax was right

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 		Use the numberbase converter fron the online tools

http://www.unfiction.com/resource/otools.html

Convert from base 10 to 2

BR

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 		On-meta-topic: would you mind putting some line breaks into that line? Having to scroll one direction to read is annoying enough, having to scroll in both is painful...
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Shish wrote:
On-meta-topic: would you mind putting some line breaks into that line? Having to scroll one direction to read is annoying enough, having to scroll in both is painful...


Done and done Smile

Also, yeah, we were having the same problem with the 24-digit number; I guess Anthrax was doing base 10 to base 2 while I was doing the actual ascii string. Pardon my ignorance
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 		maybe im just too lazy to go on any further. maybe im not, but heck, i thought you guys should see what i've gotten so far.

its not rocket science to pick out the certain trends in the morse code:

three words can be found. the rest still remains hazy. (remember these words are not definite, just very likely)

now ? ? look next ? ? ? - well that helped a lot Rolling Eyes


my patience is running thin with substituting every possible letter and then looking for corresponding vowels. i need a break from this number Surprised

ohhh ps, make sure you view it with word pad, ms word does not like the three little dots together, and stuffs up the whole layout in general.
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