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06 Feb 2013, 9:46 pm

Excellent!

I await the next puzzle like a swarm of phages in suspended with bacteria.



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06 Feb 2013, 10:24 pm

OW, OW, OW!


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06 Feb 2013, 10:33 pm

Exactly. :lol:



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06 Feb 2013, 10:40 pm

Hey there Kevin how does your encoding on the avatar work? Or is the explanation very technical?

Will try to come up with more riddles too.

BTW your rather :eew: comparison appears to be directed at Krabo ... :shameonyou:



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06 Feb 2013, 10:41 pm

Oh! 8O

Fixed. I apologize for that insensitive comparison; I was doing some reading on possibly using ants (and the activities of ants in general) for a computer not entirely unlike Hex of the Unseen University and did not bother breaking from that.

As for the avatar, the first clue has to do with Braille. The second has to do with playing fair and the third has to do with the square root of 36.



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07 Feb 2013, 6:49 am

Meanwhile, I think I'll lose


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07 Feb 2013, 9:37 am

envirozentinel wrote:
Hey there Kevin how does your encoding on the avatar work? Or is the explanation very technical?

Will try to come up with more riddles too.

BTW your rather :eew: comparison appears to be directed at Krabo ... :shameonyou:


Umm... I didn't notice anything unusual. In fact, Kevin said "Fixed" in his subsequent post, so I tried to figure out what it could have been but it's impossible to trace it back. And thank God there's some language barrier, it saves me from a lot of trouble. And thanks anyway for coming to rescue. :wink:



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07 Feb 2013, 9:59 am

kevinjh wrote:
What I was taught about apostrophes for pluralization is that they serve to prevent ambiguity between the plural of the letter, "i," and the auxiliary verb, "is," or other similar situations where ambiguity may be created, although it does seem to be as mildly irritating as having to place punctuation within quotes. In the case of numbers, the rule seems to be even worse with regards to ambiguity, but is probably in place to keep consistency.

2, 5
1 * 2, 1 * 5
1 * 1, 1 * 2, 1 * 1, 1 * 5
3 * 1, 1 * 2, 3 * 1, 1 * 5
1 * 3, 2 * 1, 1 * 2, 1 * 3, 2 * 1, 1 * 5
1 * 1, 1 * 3, 1 * 2, 2 * 1, 1 * 2, 1 * 1, 1 * 3, 1 * 2, 2 * 1, 1 * 5
11131221121113122115


Yes. My puzzle was an easy one. But in a similar fashion, what is the string of numbers that produces itself over and over?



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07 Feb 2013, 11:08 am

null
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...?
Or maybe,
0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101...?
Or maybe with more complexity,
000102030405060708090a0b0a090807060504030201000102030405060708090a0b0a090807060504030201...?
Of course, the repeating character of null is utterly destroyed when the process is repeated, so perhaps,
0,10,1110,11110,10010,111001110,11110010110,...
It seems to have plenty of imperfect repeating character, but repetition is far more likely with only two symbols or four:
0,10,1110,3110,132110,1113122110,311311222110,...
There seems to be far less repetition in base 4 than in base 2 (and overall answer: stumped for moment).

ADDITION:
The OEIS states that the sequence is eventually periodic with period 2 or 3.
0,
10,
1110,
3110,
132110,
1113122110,
311311222110,
13211321322110,
1113122113121113222110,
31131122211311123113322110
132113213221133112132123222110,
11131221131211132221232112111312111213322110,
31131122211311123113321112131221123113111231121123222110,
1321132132111331121321231231121113112221121321133112132112211213322110
New attempt:
2110,122110,11222110,21322110,121113222110,...
But still, nothing that repeats itself 100% and not more.



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07 Feb 2013, 11:35 am

Keep trying. I guarantee there is one such string.



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07 Feb 2013, 11:42 am

How about 100/3? An exact third gives you a sequence of 33.33333333 repeated ad infinitum, not so?



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07 Feb 2013, 1:41 pm

It does, but I think what was meant was a number that when processed, would yield itself (like 2110 -> 122110 except without the leading 12).



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07 Feb 2013, 2:40 pm

That's right.



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07 Feb 2013, 8:04 pm

Aren't you all over-thinking it?

22 works



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07 Feb 2013, 10:10 pm

22,
22,
22,
22,...
:wall: :lol: It works! I am defeated! :cry:



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07 Feb 2013, 10:19 pm

Muahahaha! :lol: