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9/8/2012 12:44:14 AM
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Let's spend some quality time together (Mail Sack).
[url=http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid32187]Mail Sack[/url].
Wanna see a grown man cry like a baby? Solve the challenge for this week in less than one hour.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9 the original hex has 91 7s and 0s. Treat the 7s as 1s and the 0s as 0s then break it up into chunks of 7 and prepend a 0 since this is low order ascii then convert to ascii and bam.[/quote] Wow, awesome job, bluechill9! I was wrestling with the hex and didn't think to go back to binary by replacing the 7s with 1s and zero-padding the chunk of 7 bits. He made us do that for the original conversion, so in hindsight that makes complete sense. That was a fun challenge! Thanks, TheMisssingLink! [Edited on 09.08.2012 11:06 AM PDT]
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This was a lot of fun to watch silently unfold. Nicely done blue chill, I wish I had the computer prowess that you had. If I did, we probably would have gone down to the wire. I had a lot of the early staged figured out but I was literally doing this by hand with copy and pasting and making spaces between the 1's and the 0's. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DesertStormer27 Hey MisssingLink, is there any consolation prize for being the first to get the first part correct? And what is the prize for the winner?[/quote] You weren't the first to get the first part right :P there were other people before you. I got to that part like an hour before you posted on the forum and another posted part of it proving he got there a little while before you :P and I have no idea if there is or isn't a prize but it was fun :D[/quote]Yeah, I had mentioned that I saw the "MOST ENGINEERS WHO PRACTICE COMPUTER" part a few posts above him but I gave up because my body was physically strained. On the bright side, I feel a lot better now. This Soffish do not eat.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Your MOM is MC My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code?[/quote] we weren't about the hex but he said 91 7s and 0s total.
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.....DeeJ.....You have finally done it....You've given us a challenge which is taking time to solve.... [i]Never do this again.[/i]
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My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code? I know Blue got the idea and pulled them out using C++ but other than that, I can't seem to find a cue elsewhere to show that we needed to do that. [Edited on 09.08.2012 11:01 AM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DesertStormer27 Hey MisssingLink, is there any consolation prize for being the first to get the first part correct? And what is the prize for the winner?[/quote] You weren't the first to get the first part right :P there were other people before you. I got to that part like an hour before you posted on the forum and another posted part of it proving he got there a little while before you :P and I have no idea if there is or isn't a prize but it was fun :D
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DesertStormer27 Hey MisssingLink, is there any consolation prize for being the first to get the first part correct? And what is the prize for the winner?[/quote] DeeJ did say that the next challenge could have multiple winners, and I'm guessing some swag.
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I don't hand out the prizes. I'm just the tortur--er, challenge maker. :)
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Hey MisssingLink, is there any consolation prize for being the first to get the first part correct? And what is the prize for the winner?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] antony X1000 Anyone noticing a pattern? Last time the answer was Ling Ling, this week it's Soffish. Any bets on next week?[/quote] keeping in mind for next time.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] antony X1000 Anyone noticing a pattern? Last time the answer was Ling Ling, this week it's Soffish. Any bets on next week?[/quote] Stosh, toast or P'hor.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Locker537 What were the final steps from the point where you have the 91 sevens and zeroes? [/quote] The clue was to remember that Bungie programs in sevens and zeroes. In essence, the seven is our "one". So if you convert the sevens in the 91-bit string to one, you have a binary string. Grouping them into groups of 7 and reading it as ASCII yields: [url=http://bit.ly/rdyLkP]bit.ly/rdyLkP[/url] Which links to our page on Soffish. [Edited on 09.08.2012 10:53 AM PDT]
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Anyone noticing a pattern? Last time the answer was Ling Ling, this week it's Soffish. Any bets on next week?
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the original hex has 91 7s and 0s. Treat the 7s as 1s and the 0s as 0s then break it up into chunks of 7 and prepend a 0 since this is low order ascii then convert to ascii and bam.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Locker537 What were the final steps from the point where you have the 91 sevens and zeroes? [/quote] Somehow, the winner...I don't even know. There was a soffish, then some programming, then -balm.- happened.
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What were the final steps from the point where you have the 91 sevens and zeroes?
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Glad someone got it!
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It always comes down to Soffish
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TheMisssingLink [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9 The answer is: http://www.bungie.net/inside/soffish/soffish.html! Ha soffish![/quote] This is the correct answer. Congrats![/quote] Drat, I didn't even think to go after the binary once we got the hexadecimal translation.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TheMisssingLink [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9 The answer is: http://www.bungie.net/inside/soffish/soffish.html! Ha soffish![/quote] This is the correct answer. Congrats![/quote] Most ridiculous challenge of them all? Check.
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What in the name of holy hell just happened?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9 The answer is: http://www.bungie.net/inside/soffish/soffish.html! Ha soffish![/quote] This is the correct answer. Congrats!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Verachi Thanks for the explanation but it doesn't make sense to me. At this point I'm not trying to win this challenge, I'm just trying to figure out how the hell you guys are getting all these results. This challenge makes me want to take a computer class, that way I'm not so dumd in this area. [/quote] Let me see if I can explain how I encoded it instead of decoded it, since we're all past that part now. Originally, I created the message, as you pointed out. [quote]First convert the hexadecimal to binary. Then, regroup the bits into chunks equal to our favorite number. Finally, read as ASCII.[/quote] Then I went [url=http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/]here[/url] (not really here, but it's equivalent) and pasted the string into the TEXT box and pressed ENCODE. I then copied the text from the HEX box (the hexadecimal equivalent). [quote]46 69 72 73 74 20 63 6f 6e 76 65 72 74 20 74 68 65 20 68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 74 6f 20 62 69 6e 61 72 79 2e 20 54 68 65 6e 2c 20 72 65 67 72 6f 75 70 20 74 68 65 20 62 69 74 73 20 69 6e 74 6f 20 63 68 75 6e 6b 73 20 65 71 75 61 6c 20 74 6f 20 6f 75 72 20 66 61 76 6f 72 69 74 65 20 6e 75 6d 62 65 72 2e 20 46 69 6e 61 6c 6c 79 2c 20 72 65 61 64 20 61 73 20 41 53 43 49 49 2e[/quote] Now colors to a computer [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Hex_triplet]are hexadecimal triples[/url]. And given that I've got a string whose length is divisible by 3. So #466972 yields the darn aqua for the color block on the far left. #49492e is the yellow-ish color on the far right.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] bluechill9 The answer is: http://www.bungie.net/inside/soffish/soffish.html! Ha soffish! WOOT http://cl.ly/image/3B290P1k1r1M http://cl.ly/image/3y0H2M2U0u3b http://cl.ly/image/421J2L2O051S[/quote] I...will never understand how you got there.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] beorn [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Locker537 It has exactly 91 instances of the number 7 and the number 0 in it. [/quote] Interesting... There are definitely exactly 91 hex values that contain a 7 or 0. Of that, there are only 3 different letters: "G", "W", and "P" (0x47, 0x57, 0x50) . This definitely raises flags for me since TheMisssingLink commented last night on my notice that there seemed to be a lot of P's... We're sooo close![/quote] Yep, that is where I am too. {'P': 40, 'W': 23, 'G': 27, "'": 1})
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When I posted (1.49539027543E+27)10 to to be converted form mixed decimal to words, I got "One a Seven." Another interesting one: Ordinal numbers to words? "First."
