"Drawed" is an anagram of "Edward" which is the first name of the American mathematician Kastner who introduced the term "googol" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Kasner).teebee wrote:That's drew eh true of course. However, "drawed" reveals a little more if you know how to read it.
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I didn't have the impression that there was something wrong with them. See my sample solution above. Which ones do you think were off?yes-man wrote:This took quite a lot of creative guess work...
Sometimes the doodles were off by one day. Or there were several ones for the same day. Others weren't even listed. But my 'translation' started with THEANS... so I knew I was on the right path.
Well it seems there is no one around who could do that anyway, so we're out of luck.yes-man wrote:Maybe this challenge should be updated, to make sure it works fine.
The source is off in some cases, for example they cannot decide whether the Norway national day is on 16th or 17th May (they were off in 2009, but correct in 2014 and 2015).AMindForeverVoyaging wrote:I didn't have the impression that there was something wrong with them. See my sample solution above. Which ones do you think were off?