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is the result a number or something else? i am stuck.

i tried to get the result manually. However, if i made no mistake, the program tries to insert in the program counter a negative number, which is illegal. Should this happen?

i just chose the red channel in photoshop. i knew right away that the answer was hidden inside the text, since there is another challenge that uses the same text.

ok this is the most stupid challenge by far. you need to install 10 crappy programs that will be used just once.

i solved with the recursive way and c++. I used to huge char arrays of 1 million bytes each to store the results. It took 5 hours to get the result. However the tricky part is the next challenge, must find a way to calculate the ln of this array

i even found a txt file with the first 1 billion digits of pi! i used it in another challenge. it's a 980MB file

Edit: ok i found the correct sequence and i understand what it is. However, how do i find the specific game? there seem to be some mistakes too.

i guessed the letter but you are right. I managed to fix the overflow. It was just as MerickOWA said. You have to get the endianess right. However the next challenge is much more tricky. I brute forced this one, but this trick isn't going to work there.

i solved it properly....ok i clicked play

at first i thought it needed the ip of hacker.org :S

i used "Live HHTP Headers" addon for Firefox. Took me only a couple of seconds

DaymItzJack wrote:

SimonPip wrote:Just wanted to chime in and say, yeah, the challenge text is wrong, adum is in 5th place, while falcon2424 is in 6th.

http://web.archive.org/web/200705151214 ... acker.org/

Captain Segfault is one person.

this troubled me for a couple of minutes :p

i reversed the algortihm in c++ and found the solution. but the output is wrong in 2 letters. instead of <'> it prints %27 and instead of space it prints %20. Then i realized that this is a web script so it uses url encoding, so i replaced these 2 characters with the appropriate ones and it was over...

i am still missing a few letters due to overflow. any idea how to deal with the overflow? thanks.

and i had to download a 980MB txt file with the first billion digits of Pi and search that