Unreal

dangermouse · Post by **dangermouse** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:42 am

I am now at stage two

. Should i know consider the number in quotes or are the quotes part of the number?

teebee · Post by **teebee** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:40 pm

Answering that question is part of the fun ...

dangermouse · Post by **dangermouse** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:47 pm

well i had a minor mistake, i forgot to include the very last 75

. Without that mistake it would have been crystal clear. Thanks to laz0r for helping me out!

megabreit · Post by **megabreit** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:27 pm

Hm... I had no idea so far how to approach this challenge? Any hints?

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:33 pm

It's a number, so what do you normally do with numbers?

megabreit · Post by **megabreit** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:08 pm

That's a quite general hint

Most of the time at hacker.org you convert one number into another representation e.g. into hex or binary and then interpret things differently. I don't know of a format for such long floating point numbers.

laz0r · Post by **laz0r** » Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:17 pm

It was meant to be general

if it were an integer, it would be obvious what to do - so treat it mathematically in *exactly* the same way - see if that helps!

MatRush · Post by **MatRush** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 10:21 am

laz0r wrote:It was meant to be general if it were an integer, it would be obvious what to do - so treat it mathematically in *exactly* the same way - see if that helps!

Any relationship with Number Theory?

sergejs · Post by **sergejs** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 2:06 pm

MatRush wrote: Any relationship with Number Theory?

No, not really. Try reading about different compression algorithms. Maybe one of them will give you a sufficient hint to understand what to do for the first phase.

Hippo · Post by **Hippo** » Fri May 09, 2014 2:34 pm

My first try worked

. I was solving it in debug mode expecting some of my assumptions would fail, but there was no problem at all.

MatRush · Post by **MatRush** » Wed May 14, 2014 5:01 am

Good one, finally got it.