Hi there,
has this challenge something to do with vector geometry?
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Descartes
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i think it has to do with the cartesian plane, but plotting it does not reveal anything. Could it be a 6-bit encoding, but then how to handle doubles?
EDIT: hint, now that i solved it: indeed it is neither a group algebra thing nor complicated polynomial stuff nor theorem... i also found this quote of René Descartes on the web:
EDIT: hint, now that i solved it: indeed it is neither a group algebra thing nor complicated polynomial stuff nor theorem... i also found this quote of René Descartes on the web:
i think he would have done well on hacker.orgYou just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
I searched for a descartes cipher, but i found nothing.
The olny thing i found was:
“Perfect apple numbers bananas are cherry like date perfect elderberry men fig. They gooseberry are huckleberry very kiwifruit rare lemons."
It's a quotation from himself, if you take away the fruits you get:
"Perfect numbers are like perfect men. they are very rare."
Is this similar to the solution? Perfect numbers or encoding like that?
EDIT: I also noticed that there are numbers AND letters up to e, does this mean that it's something like hex?
The olny thing i found was:
“Perfect apple numbers bananas are cherry like date perfect elderberry men fig. They gooseberry are huckleberry very kiwifruit rare lemons."
It's a quotation from himself, if you take away the fruits you get:
"Perfect numbers are like perfect men. they are very rare."
Is this similar to the solution? Perfect numbers or encoding like that?
EDIT: I also noticed that there are numbers AND letters up to e, does this mean that it's something like hex?
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