Re:The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever
by mandy on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @07:45AM
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what did you do at 29?
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look at the image and it tells you what to do
I looked at the image:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1121/1098453615_f41fb895bd.jp...
and I still have no clue what are the 4 commands...
Type the DOS command: "ping pong.com" and enter the IP address digit...
got it...stuck @30 now
it's 100 symbols without spaces, so email shouldn't be that long, so may be:
a) several cipher symbols mean 1 clear text symbol
or
b) you must skip some symbols
my interpretation of "if you throw a pi at the wall, does it break into chunks of two" - take pi value in binary like 11.00100100001111110110... and assume, that 1 means keep symbol, 0 means discard it, but that didn't produce meaningfull email :( Such interpratation just shows, that hint is not clear enough, too much variations.
how about not converting to binary :)
try thinking about chunks of two
i too am struggling...can anyone who solved give more hints?