Geek Puzzle

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:23 pm

54 to 72 is 18 (6 to H)
72 to 81 is 9 (H to Q)
81 to 90 is 9 (Q to Z)
so
c or lower case L

http://www.asciitable.com/

Irene · Post by **Irene** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:25 pm

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:54 to 72 is 18 (6 to H)
72 to 81 is 9 (H to Q)
81 to 90 is 9 (Q to Z)
so
c or lower case L

You're leading to the wrong path, but you're not wrong with the lower case L being one of the characters that I'm looking for ^_^

EDIT: Oh I see it's page 11 already, well if anyone missed my puzzle from page 10 here it is:

Irene wrote:What comes next?? ^o^

6, H, Q, Z,

Hints:
1. There are 2 characters that can come next.
2. The characters may only be alphanumerical.
3. The characters may only be in ASCII (no Unicode).
4. The number 9 might help you, maybe not..

EDIT2: I just saw that one might misunderstand hint #1; what I mean is 2 characters in sequence e.g. x, y and not x or y. Sorry for any inconvenience >_<

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:30 pm

lower case L and lower case U

OK Irene (and all of you!)
what comes next:
00,19/00,24/00,24/___,____

and for Irene:
00,23/00,19/00,18/00,49/__,__

and Happy Birthday! What kind of cake did you have? Can you mail me a piece?

Irene · Post by **Irene** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:46 pm

Rook Zimbabwe wrote:lower case L and lower case U
:D

Still wrong unfortunately..

Here's some PureBasic code to get you up ^o^ (I know it's not optimized well, please don't criticize!!)

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AlphabetSmall$ = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
AlphabetBig$ = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
Numbers$ = "0123456789"

For i = 1 To Len(Numbers$)
 Char$ = Mid(Numbers$, i, 1)
 If Val(Left(Str(Asc(Char$)), 1)) + Val(Right(Str(Asc(Char$)), 1)) = 9
  Debug Char$
 EndIf
Next
For i = 1 To Len(AlphabetBig$)
 Char$ = Mid(AlphabetBig$, i, 1)
 If Val(Left(Str(Asc(Char$)), 1)) + Val(Right(Str(Asc(Char$)), 1)) = 9
  Debug Char$
 EndIf
Next
For i = 1 To Len(AlphabetSmall$)
 Char$ = Mid(AlphabetSmall$, i, 1)
 If Val(Left(Str(Asc(Char$)), 1)) + Val(Right(Str(Asc(Char$)), 1)) = 9
  Debug Char$
 EndIf
Next

#NULL · Post by **#NULL** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:47 pm

that's typical. the only puzzle i solve is removed imediately and never was there, just as my post

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:51 am

I don't get it then... 18 from Z is l(lower case L) 9 from Z is lower c, and 9 from lower L is u... 18, 9, 9, 18, 9... unless you are inting 6 3 which makes 9... then the answer would be hl

citystate · Post by **citystate** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:54 am

Irene wrote:
Rook Zimbabwe wrote:lower case L and lower case U

Still wrong unfortunately..

Here's some PureBasic code to get you up ^o^ (I know it's not optimized well, please don't criticize!!)<snip>
</snip>

the characters would be lowercase L and lowercase V - Irene's algorithm is totaling the first and last digit of the ascii code and accepting it if it equals 9

(the character '?' could also be included between the 6 and H - if it wasn't a non-alphanumeric that is)

Rook Zimbabwe · Post by **Rook Zimbabwe** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:44 pm

Read the code... read the code...

Mine is really simple once you see the trick to it... Irenes example has the answer in it...

and for Irene:
00,23/00,19/00,18/00,49/__,__