Posts from December 10th, 2010.

Google Cr-48

UPDATE: I was defeated! Also, I suck at math.

I was watching some video about what happens to your data when your Chrome notebook dies and there was some stuff on a chalkboard in the background. It took me probably 20 minutes to solve all the equations to get the wrong answer. So I’m replacing my wrong post with this more accurate one.

The board is at 2:24 (seek to 2:21 so you have time to pause):

C=8335727 (I had 8338041 here originally.)
G=90091/100=900.91
H=269462689
M=552 (This took me most of the 20 minutes.)
O=694079
R=222647

X = G/(C*H*R*O*M-3)
X = 900.91/191605050401140404051920181525
X = goo.gl/191605050401140404051920181525

I got here on my own but with a different denominator and realized it was a url. From experience goo.gl urls are 5 characters of case-sensitive letters and numbers. I was trying to figure out how to shrink it.

The winners split the denominator by twos.
X = goo.gl/ 19 16 05 05 04 01 14 04 04 05 19 20 18 15 25
All of these numbers are between 1 and 26. They are just the positions of letters in the alphabet. When you translate them, you get.
X = goo.gl/speedanddestroy
X marks the spot, go there.

Retrospection:
I’m retarded for trying to solve this by hand. The winners plugged this into wolfram alpha.