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by DamaTeq
Tue Feb 15, 2011 11:30 pm
Forum: Challenges Solved
Topic: Broken XOR 3
Replies: 7
Views: 652

my approach is pretty fast (it takes only a few secs) but it is not perfect. btw, don't look at the goto's hehe class FalsePositive { public int Index { get; set; } public int Length { get; set; } public byte Key { get; set; } public FalsePositive(int index, int length, byte key) { Index = index; Le...
by DamaTeq
Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:58 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Latin Lesson
Replies: 11
Views: 25578

hm i should have decoded the whole message at once and not stop after i thought i have everything i need :lol:
by DamaTeq
Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:13 pm
Forum: Challenges Solved
Topic: A Repeat of Pi
Replies: 21
Views: 1962

I also used a "sliding window" for the first time using a specific length. Those sequences that found are stored in the list. Afterwards i just go through the list and check if those strings (+x) are also found. when not - it gets removed from the list. The most time is used for making the...
by DamaTeq
Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:12 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: A Piece of Pi challenge
Replies: 10
Views: 13746

I didn't use a list or something... hope that helps ;)
by DamaTeq
Sun Feb 06, 2011 2:50 pm
Forum: Challenges Solved
Topic: Pi Hates Nines
Replies: 26
Views: 3333

solved in c#

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using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead("pi.txt")))
{
      Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd().Split('9').OrderByDescending(x => x.Length).First());
}
;)
by DamaTeq
Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:14 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Maeda Path?
Replies: 12
Views: 17871

easy going - did it in under 5 minutes ... no bot programming required ;)
by DamaTeq
Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:39 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: Floating
Replies: 17
Views: 24780

this challenge really sucks ... i should have the correct number (8.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) but it won't take my answer. I tried to round up / down to nearly every digit. I tried to round like wikipedia says (see: IEEE 754). Tried a ',' instead of '.' but nope ... everything is incorrect. That challen...
by DamaTeq
Thu Feb 03, 2011 11:41 pm
Forum: Challenges
Topic: 'Bit Test' challenge... the strange coding.. please help me.
Replies: 48
Views: 58222

i struggled at this challenge quite a while because english is not my native language. But i can give you a little hint: think of a mathematical funtion which is implemented in most programming languages.