Challenge: Number Theory

honze · Post by **honze** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 6:27 pm

Hi there!

I looked closer at the number and got ... lets say 14 numbers.
It is obvious that there is a certain order of these numbers...

I ran a lot of tests, but nothing gave me a clue. Maybe someone could give me a little hint.

portal · Post by **portal** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 10:21 am

you are probably in the right track... but missing something about these numbers...
sorry, not very good in giving hints...

wodash1 · Post by **wodash1** » Wed May 12, 2010 2:53 am

stabat · Post by **stabat** » Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:49 pm

is the answer a number? a word?
this nice number drives me crazy :p

rmplpmpl · Post by **rmplpmpl** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 4:17 pm

it's a word...

HugStuart · Post by **HugStuart** » Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:33 am

I just solved it. This is one of these challenges that seems to be so easy after solving it

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:04 pm

Any help on extracting the numbers?

HugStuart · Post by **HugStuart** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:13 pm

The name says it all

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:29 pm

Hmm, I managed to find the numbers, but now what? I've sorted them out correctly and tried a lot of logical things with them, but still unable to get anything meaningful out of it. Thanks

HugStuart · Post by **HugStuart** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:41 pm

You are really close...

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:37 pm

Done =]

Thanks all

moose · Post by **moose** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:43 pm

You got 14 numbers? You're confusing me. I got 7 and most of them are quite big. The smallest one is 3. Am I on the right track?

satfreak666 · Post by **satfreak666** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:21 pm

moose wrote:You got 14 numbers? You're confusing me. I got 7 and most of them are quite big. The smallest one is 3. Am I on the right track?

Guess not ... als least you got the wrong numbers ...

moose · Post by **moose** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 4:22 pm

I've got 104 ... I guess *** isn't the right way

edit ... oops ... just guessed you might talk about distinct numbers ... now I've also got 14

edit2: I don't get it. I tried modulo 26, but it didn't help. How are we supposed to convert them into a meaningful english word?

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:37 am

moose wrote:I've got 104 ... I guess *** isn't the right way

edit ... oops ... just guessed you might talk about distinct numbers ... now I've also got 14

edit2: I don't get it. I tried modulo 26, but it didn't help. How are we supposed to convert them into a meaningful english word?

Why those 14 numbers?

1. Determine what they all have in common
2. Understand why those 14 were picked and not any others that might share similar properties
3. Look closely and it might just strike you

It's actually a fairly simple challenge once you know how