Too Many Digits

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:49 pm

Wasn't actually difficult to get the required part of the data, still, the answer is not right, i tried +-2 too.

my sequence begins with 3072...

theStack · Post by **theStack** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:26 pm

I haven't solved that so far, but I just discovered that I have interpreted the numeric value in a wrong way.
Instead of taking _one_ sexdecillion (10^51), I took _six_ decillions (6*10^33).

Maybe that helps.

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:27 pm

with anything other than 10^51 you get "not in range" as answer, but i get my numbers

theStack · Post by **theStack** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:35 pm

I just solved it (typing in that sixdecillion number was hell

), worked without problems.

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:37 pm

range: 1(51 zeroes)-...?

btw, is there a hacker.org chat?

theStack · Post by **theStack** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:47 pm

Well, I don't want to spoil anything, my clue is: just think about how you exactly access a string if you want the N-th char!

Hm,
I don't know about a hacker.org chat but it would be very nice to discuss about some of the challenges.
Maybe we should create an IRC channel?

MerickOWA · Post by **MerickOWA** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:03 pm

m!nus wrote:range: 1(51 zeroes)-...?

You're so close.

Double check HTTP protocol for you error.

I tested and its more than willing to give data outside the range of the answer, but apparently you can't be too far off or you get the "out of range" error.

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:06 pm

MerickOWA wrote:
m!nus wrote:range: 1(51 zeroes)-...?
You're so close.

Double check HTTP protocol for you error.

I tested and its more than willing to give data outside the range of the answer, but apparently you can't be too far off or you get the "out of range" error.

the chunks are not really a problem if you mean that

MerickOWA · Post by **MerickOWA** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:12 pm

All I can say is that your answer is not the "sixdecillion number".

I'm afraid if I try to say why your answer is not the sixdecillion number, i'd give it away

m!nus · Post by **m!nus** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:24 pm

hmmm, i tried many but apparently left out the wrong one

TeXoR · Post by **TeXoR** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:35 pm

The server is too lazy to look it up:(
Any hint what to do to make him my slave?!^^

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Sun Nov 30, 2008 12:36 am

minus: As far as hacker.org chat goes, its probably not a great ideas as you know answers are bound to be leaked. At least here they can tie a post/PM to an account/IP

As for the challenge, I don't have anything more to say

TeXoR · Post by **TeXoR** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 8:07 pm

Yeah, I've got it;)
The bottleneck was the program I used:)
so long....

cyberwoozle · Post by **cyberwoozle** » Thu Dec 25, 2008 12:51 pm

I have a problem with this challenge: i tried all versions of header fields from RFC 2616, but i always get "400 Response body too long", even if i only specify one character (byte) - range.
Am i on the wrong trail?

Isaev · Post by **Isaev** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:07 am

http://www.hacker.org/challenge/misc/to ... number.txt

Not Found
The requested URL /challenge/misc/toomany/infinite_number.txt was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It's OK