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SSH 05-02-2007 01:14 AM

Secret code
 
Zero Nine Eff Nine Eleven Zero Two Nine Dee Seventy-four Ee three Five Bee Dee Eight Fourty-one Fifty-six See five Six three Five Six Eighty-eight Sea Zero

Puzzled?

Can anyone work out what it is?

Phantom 05-02-2007 01:37 AM

My first idea was that it was a phonetically spelled hexadecimal code of some kind:

0 9 f fine 11 0 2 9 d 72 e 3 5 b d 8 41 56 c 5 6 3 5 6 88 c 0
(see http://www.i-base.info/about/ibase-words.txt)

I can't translate the 'fine' though. I have no idea what to do with it now though. But it seems too much coincidence that all 'weird' words are phonetically pronounced as letters from a to f.

Also notice that only three (twice) and five is spelled without capitals. Coincidence?

jacog 05-02-2007 01:51 AM

Well, it certainly does seem like hex, but the first one "09" is a TAB, not a letter or number... so it's likely not a direct mapping.

SSH 05-02-2007 03:00 AM

The Fine was a "deliberate" mistake :D

Yes, its hex code, but WHAT is the code?

Kurufinwe 05-02-2007 04:15 AM

You could at least have used [SPOILER] tags... You wouldn't want Marek to end up in prison because of that post, would you? ;)

RLacey 05-02-2007 04:18 AM

*looks at Digg.com*

Ah...

MoriartyL 05-02-2007 04:41 AM

I don't understand.

Giligan 05-02-2007 05:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SSH (Post 408909)
Zero Nine Eff Nine Eleven Zero Two Nine Dee Seventy-four Ee three Five Bee Dee Eight Fourty-one Fifty-six See five Six three Five Six Eighty-eight Sea Zero

Puzzled?

Can anyone work out what it is?


Zin Fan Ease Ted Sef Feet Fib Def-Off Sick Coughs-Sit Fees See-Echoes.


I may have made several errors in translation. :P

bulldog 05-02-2007 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SSH (Post 408918)
The Fine was a "deliberate" mistake :D

Yes, its hex code, but WHAT is the code?

What is a hex code?

Is this a puzzle that you are working on in a game or is it something that you use to create games?

Just wondering, can someone explain?

jacog 05-02-2007 05:25 AM

Your computer counts using base 16 numbers... so instead of a 10 count required to get from 0 to 10... you need 16... so, after 9 they stuck a b c d e f... so, a count to 20 goes like this...

01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0d 0f 0e 0f 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1a 1b 1c 1d 1e 1f 20 all the way up to FF which is 255

How that relates to a secret message I don't know. I thought they were mapped to ASCII codes, but these don't seem to all correspond to numbers.

SSH 05-02-2007 05:27 AM

There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don't

MoriartyL 05-02-2007 05:58 AM

It's not a bad joke, but what does that have to do with this? Is that the solution? How do you get there? And why is this so high on Digg? (I've never been to Digg before, and don't really understand what it is, but RLacey's post makes it seem like that's meaningful somehow.)

kuze 05-02-2007 06:05 AM

It's a cheat code for Doom2.

Phantom 05-02-2007 06:30 AM

It's the encryption key of all HD-DVD movies released so far.

RLacey 05-02-2007 06:47 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6615047.stm

Squinky 05-02-2007 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SSH (Post 408939)
There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand binary and those that don't

I have that on a shirt.

And personally, I prefer "If you are in IT, you are E."

samIamsad 05-02-2007 10:04 AM

Once upon a time I was E, then...... for a while. And that means?

Squinky 05-02-2007 11:00 AM

It means you're way off track. :)


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