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Okay, so it should be relatively obvious that there is a pattern in the string: we have a series of numbers and a single letter; most of the numbers are either a 1 or a 0; the 1 or 0 parts seem to be 8 digits long; the non-0 and non-1 numbers seem to be 2 digits long. Using this information we can split the string to make it a little easier to work with:

43 01100001 6e 00100000 79 01101111 75 00100000 64 01100101 63 01101001 70 01101000 65 01110010 20 01110100 68 01101001 73 00111111

From this we can now infer that the series of 8 digits made up of 0 or 1 are probably binary (base 2). Also, the series 2 digits that can include non-0, non-1 and alphabetic characters are possibly hexadecimal (base 16). Although it is true that this second series may be another base greater than 10, but as hex is a common >10 base we'll stick with that until we can discard it if it doesn't work and use a different base. My clue actually does specify binary and hex to make this even simpler.

So, we have a sequence of numbers consisting of 8 digit binary and 2 digit (a letter is a digit in this instance) hexadecimal. The maximum number, in decimal (base 10) that can be specified with 8 digit binary (00000000 to 11111111) and 2 digit hex (00 to FF) is 255 (256 numbers, from from 0 to 255). What do we know that uses 256 characters? ASCII!

We can now convert the binary and hexadecimal to decimal. There are sites (http://www.binaryhexconverter.com) that will do this for you and most calculators will also do it:

43 01100001 6e 00100000 79 01101111 75 00100000 64 01100101 63 01101001 70 01101000 65 01110010 20 01110100 68 01101001 73 00111111

Becomes:

67 97 110 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 32 116 104 105 115 63

We can now convert this to ASCII. ASCII tables are available online (http://www.asciitable.com/). Actually, the step to convert hex and binary to decimal can really be ignored and we could convert directly from hex and binary to ASCII but how much fun would that be?

67 97 110 32 121 111 117 32 100 101 99 105 112 104 101 114 32 116 104 105 115 63
C a n y o u d e c i p h e r t h i s ?

Remove the spaces and you get the answer (and the question!):

Can you decipher this?

There is no real mathematics involved apart from knowledge of bases other than decimal.

That excercise you just did "does not involve math"????


Okay. If you say so.

But math or not it was good. (applause).

Thank you! It's a shame that Anon_92 thought it was "meaningless numbers you randomly typed" and didn't have a go at solving it.

The story goes that upon Hippasus discovering the irrational number, the purist mathematician, Pythagoras killed him by throwing him overboard a ship.

However, do irrational numbers actually exist in reality (as measurements, assuming proper measurement gear)?

For example, why or why not does the hypotenuse of this triangle (of definite length) have an indefinite calculated length, or are we mistaken that physical objects may not have a definite length ?


You can find different POVs here.
https://math.stackexchange.com/question ... in-reality
https://www.quora.com/Do-irrational-numbers-exist

Why is Greenland called Greenland when there is nothing green in it, and Iceland called Iceland when there is very little ice in it?

Actually no... the answer will ALWAYS be correct.

When why don't you just explain what it means in a new thread since you already know... other Aspies want to know this.

I actually have an AOL account that I have been teaching a thousand new words to. Do you guys realize how much money my AOL spellcheck is worth?

The Knights & Knaves puzzle.....

-two doors
-one guard guards each door
-one door leads to freedom, one leads to death
-one guard always tells the truth, one always lies

Tell the liar the truth.

Yes and no.

If it's big enough, it would cause a black hole.

The questions are not for me to answer but for YOU to then share it with Aspies. I am just telling you it's OK to be smart.

The madman is an Aspie gone mad and you guys can decipher it if you want to, but it's too complicated to do... better the Zodiac just confesses.

Of course that's not what you said in your original post. Not that it really matters any.

Also if you're going for a poor man's version of Reddit's PhD_in_everything, you need to step it up quite a bit more.

I did explain. Have a look up the page.

What do you mean by "god obviously exists"?