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Strife26

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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #330 on: March 31, 2011, 10:10:56 am »
It's not pi and it isn't 1745; however, I'm interested to hear the reasoning behind the answers.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #331 on: March 31, 2011, 10:11:50 am »
Is it egg?
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Strife26

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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #332 on: March 31, 2011, 10:13:25 am »
Quote from: The Merchant Of Menace on March 31, 2011, 10:11:50 am
Is it egg?
((Someday that'll be right =P))

No.

Also, note that I'm not going to check all the different base combination, in the event that an answer of letters actually works. The number is in base 10. Insert your own Douglas Adams joke here.



This riddle is really one that's meant to be the result of careful consideration by more than one person, so I recommend that everyone posts what they think of it. Especially because I want to see it solved!
« Last Edit: March 31, 2011, 10:36:27 am by Strife26 »
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #333 on: March 31, 2011, 10:41:46 am »
Is it an integer?
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #334 on: March 31, 2011, 10:52:12 am »
I'm guessing it has something to do with the atomic numbers in the PTE.
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Strife26

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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #335 on: March 31, 2011, 10:55:23 am »
It is an integer and a member of the counting numbers to boot.

It has nothing to do with atomic numbers.


There's three parts to the riddle, the first tells us what kind of number (or what it represents) while the second section provides the information needed to figure out which number it is. The third section is just responses.
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« Reply #336 on: March 31, 2011, 11:14:29 am »
I was thinking it is a year. There is a metric unit for time (s), but a year is not a SI unit, so up and down in unit size I guess. After the number, anno domine, and more correct and in English, Common Era.

Then I picked a year based on 13, 7 and 135, each was somehow related to a forth of the number, one digit each maybe… and then my boss walked by so I guessed something and left it at that.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #337 on: March 31, 2011, 11:16:39 am »
How did 135 come into play anyway?
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Strife26

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« Reply #338 on: March 31, 2011, 11:21:50 am »
I'm not sure how 135 came into play, but 7 and 13 were both placed into consideration pretty early on, with 7 being a generally lucky number (my third favorite number actually, because it's 26/4 rounded up) while 13 is half of 26 as well as all sorts of things.

I do believe that Heliogabalus may be on to something though . . .
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #339 on: March 31, 2011, 11:24:49 am »
Oh, how about 1661, which is when Robert Boyle showed that thera are more than 4 elements?

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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #340 on: March 31, 2011, 12:10:06 pm »
It is not 1661. Figuring any of the entries in the third paragraph will almost crack the riddle.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #341 on: March 31, 2011, 12:14:38 pm »
1984?
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« Reply #342 on: March 31, 2011, 12:16:43 pm »
No. Why 1984?
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #343 on: March 31, 2011, 12:17:51 pm »
451 fits the third paragraph pretty well, and some parts of the first paragraph.  I can't fit it to the second paragraph though.
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Re: The questions, riddles and puzzles thread
« Reply #344 on: March 31, 2011, 12:18:22 pm »
Quote from: Strife26 on March 31, 2011, 12:16:43 pm
No. Why 1984?
Te first number to come to m mind.
 
 
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