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Thanks for explaining, bluechill.

[Edited on 09.08.2012 2:46 PM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 1:22 PM PDT

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Thanks for the walkthrough blue, definitely helped explain things. The only thing I got hung up on was changing the hexadecimal to binary and then prepending 0's... Rest makes sense :D

  • 09.08.2012 1:26 PM PDT

Hey missing link canI get a congratulations as a consolation prize? I did use deductive reasoning. Last one was Ling Ling so I figured this would be another Bungie meme like that. Tell me you love me at least.
:p

  • 09.08.2012 1:31 PM PDT


Posted by: Your MOM is MC

Posted by: Locker537

Posted by: Your MOM is MC
My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code?

I know Blue got the idea and pulled them out using C++ but other than that, I can't seem to find a cue elsewhere to show that we needed to do that.


The paragraph about Bungie programming in sevens from the original hexadecimal blob was the clue; albiet tricky.


Not that, blue already answered my question. I already knew to transform the 1's to 7's or vice versa, but I wasn't sure how he came up with the idea to put them in binary form. He said it was a guess, which is honestly the only way anyone could've gotten it. Hence it's high difficulty.


You have a string of sevens and zeroes. Based on the paragraph, you know Bungie uses sevens instead of ones, so you replace the sevens with ones. Now you have a string of ones and zeroes, which IS binary.

  • 09.08.2012 1:35 PM PDT

I acknowledge my user name is stupid. However, I promise I'm not.

Disclaimer: The latter is a lie.

Good stuff, bluechill!

:)



[Edited on 09.08.2012 2:14 PM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 2:14 PM PDT

For those interested, I threw some comments into my solution script. Hopefully the comments are helpful for those who don't write software to get the idea of the entire process.

https://gist.github.com/3671583

  • 09.08.2012 2:29 PM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.


Posted by: Locker537

Posted by: Your MOM is MC

Posted by: Locker537

Posted by: Your MOM is MC
My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code?

I know Blue got the idea and pulled them out using C++ but other than that, I can't seem to find a cue elsewhere to show that we needed to do that.


The paragraph about Bungie programming in sevens from the original hexadecimal blob was the clue; albiet tricky.


Not that, blue already answered my question. I already knew to transform the 1's to 7's or vice versa, but I wasn't sure how he came up with the idea to put them in binary form. He said it was a guess, which is honestly the only way anyone could've gotten it. Hence it's high difficulty.


You have a string of sevens and zeroes. Based on the paragraph, you know Bungie uses sevens instead of ones, so you replace the sevens with ones. Now you have a string of ones and zeroes, which IS binary.


I already understood that. My question was answered already, no need trying to explain. My question was why did he choose to transform the Hex to binary and put the 0's ahead of each line. He already explained, all is well. I already knew to transform the 7's to 1's, we just didn't know what to do after that. And you don't have a string of 7' and 0's to start, you have a block of hex code to work with (there's about 3 different ways to achieve the answer, we went about it a slightly different way).

  • 09.08.2012 2:48 PM PDT

Posted by: T1B3R7uMB0YXVI
Chief vs the scarab? I find that hard to believe to roundhouse boot the scarab's figurative emotion out of the gaming zone.

SWEET!!! I'm all front-and-center with my demonicness in that picture. I love it!

  • 09.08.2012 7:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: GrinnialVex
SWEET!!! I'm all front-and-center with my demonicness in that picture. I love it!
:( Lucky! I was there, but not in the picture...

*Feels alone*

  • 09.08.2012 8:30 PM PDT

Blast. Was AFK last night and just now saw the challenge.

Appreciated the "guided missile" reference though. ;)

  • 09.08.2012 11:54 PM PDT

La-hoo, Za-her.

Bungie's "fixed" endings do not give me hope for Destiny.

  • 09.09.2012 6:52 AM PDT
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BC1096
One does not choose a destiny, his destiny is bestowed, shaped and formed, from the soul.

Wow nice man

Didn't somebody say softish earlier though?

  • 09.09.2012 8:47 AM PDT

yayyyy first time making it into a mail sack! :)

  • 09.09.2012 9:38 AM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Good mailsack.

  • 09.09.2012 4:26 PM PDT
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Whoo.

The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.

Darn.

  • 09.09.2012 4:31 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Posted by: MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.

Darn.
Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.

  • 09.09.2012 4:33 PM PDT

Nice work, Bluechill!

  • 09.09.2012 4:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.

Darn.
Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.


I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)

  • 09.09.2012 5:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.

Darn.
Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.


I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)


And it was pretty late at night (here on the east coast at least), so as long as you were willing to spend a few waking hours doing some soft-core coding and math, you probably could've had some fun that night/morning.

  • 09.09.2012 6:15 PM PDT

Sometimes, when riddles like the one you solved over the weekend are pitched to me, I shoot them down. "Too hard," I say. "They won't be able to solve that," I say.

You people never fail to impress.

Winner: bluchill9
Runner Up: SpecOps11
Honorable Mention: Beorn
Honorable Mention: Lobster Fish 2

All of you should send me a message with your name, address, and size.

Well done, all.

  • 09.10.2012 1:11 PM PDT


Posted by: DeeJ


All that for a piece of clothing? I thought it was going to be something bigger.

[Edited on 09.10.2012 1:13 PM PDT]

  • 09.10.2012 1:12 PM PDT

Subject: If you saw a meteor coming toward Earth, what would you do?Posted by: juniorbandit96
Butter my ass, turn around, spread open my butt cheeks, and say "Right here mutha-blam!-a!!"

Join Planetary Annihilation and Speed Haven

Posted by: DeeJ
They deserve titles.

  • 09.10.2012 1:14 PM PDT

(^}>


Posted by: Mythical Wolf

Posted by: DeeJ


All that for a piece of clothing? I thought it was going to be something bigger.
You're underestimating the significance of such clothing.

  • 09.10.2012 1:14 PM PDT
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Whoo.

Posted by: bluechill9
Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.

Darn.
Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.
I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)
Well I actually thought this was a thread asking for questions rather than one posting a mail sack.

Unless those two became one and the same at some point.
I really haven't been keeping up with mail sack dynamics.

  • 09.10.2012 1:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: MURDUR 587
Posted by: bluechill9
Posted by: Wikked Navajoe
Posted by: MURDUR 587
The one time the challenge is related to binary, hexadecimal and programming and I miss it.

Darn.
Exactly.
Leave it to school to mess up your free time.
I have school too ya know ;) and yet I still did it :)
Well I actually thought this was a thread asking for questions rather than one posting a mail sack.

Unless those two became one and the same at some point.
I really haven't been keeping up with mail sack dynamics.


It was linked from the mail sack article as "post your answers here" :P

  • 09.10.2012 2:18 PM PDT