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(Message started by: Robin Friberg on Jul 30^th, 2003, 5:18am)

Title: What is the base?
Post by Robin Friberg on Jul 30^th, 2003, 5:18am

What is the base?
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1310 1220 1211 0200 1303 1233 1230 1311 1310 1221 1233 1232 0200 1221 1303 0200 1303 1310 1302 1233 1232 1213 1220 1233 1230 1210

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I belive all this numbers has one number that is equal to all of them... i would like to know how to think to get it? Thanks

Friberg

Title: Re: What is the base?
Post by Icarus on Jul 30^th, 2003, 4:13pm

Hint 1:[hide] The digits are all 0-3, so the appropriate base is obvious.[/hide]

Hint 2:[hide] The final solution is not a number. [/hide]

Hint 3:[hide] Each group of 4 digits represents a base-4 number from 0-255 (ring any bells)? All the values except 0200 are between 64 and 128.[/hide]

Hint 4:[hide] The ASCII character set that your computer uses to encode simple text maps each character to a 1 byte number - i.e., a number from 0-255.[/hide]

Answer: [hide] The numbers are base-4 representations for the ASCII encoding of the phrase "the solution is stronghold".[/hide]

Title: Re: What is the base?
Post by towr on Jul 30^th, 2003, 4:24pm

hmm.. yes that could be a base..

Title: Re: What is the base?
Post by Robin Friberg on Jul 31^st, 2003, 2:18pm

Nice, after the third hint i got it :) Thanks for ya help m8...