It's easier than it might look at first glance -- it's a puzzle more than a math problem.
I wasn't sure if you were looking for the solution or just offering it to other people to solve, but I don't want to spoil anyone else's fun, so let me know if you did want the answer and I'll email it to you. In any case, thanks for the pointer. :)
Yeah, when I got home from rehearsal late last night and read our comics, J had already gleefully worked the puzzle and pencilled in the answer, and on the whole I found that satisfied me rather better than decoding it myself would have. :-)
(The only bit he couldn't work out in his head immediately on sight was X, and he left that one for last so he could get it by process of elimination instead of bothering to do the long division.)
X wasn't actually that hard if you work with computers a lot, since '512' is 2^9 and 8192 is 2^9 x 2^4. 8192+1024=9216, which reduces to 512x16 +512x2, or 512x18...
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 02:25 pm (UTC)I wasn't sure if you were looking for the solution or just offering it to other people to solve, but I don't want to spoil anyone else's fun, so let me know if you did want the answer and I'll email it to you. In any case, thanks for the pointer. :)
no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 03:21 pm (UTC)scroll down if you want the answer.
Paige Fox is bad at math
no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 03:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-19 11:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 03:52 am (UTC)Do the easy math functions first. Once you get enough letters filled in, you can identify the rest of the letters you need and figure the answer.
no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 06:39 pm (UTC)(The only bit he couldn't work out in his head immediately on sight was X, and he left that one for last so he could get it by process of elimination instead of bothering to do the long division.)
no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 08:15 pm (UTC)Okay, so maybe it makes sense in my head.
no subject
Date: 2009-04-21 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 08:19 pm (UTC)But that's probably just me (780 math SAT). Also, the integral was pretty silly.
no subject
Date: 2009-04-21 04:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-21 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-22 04:12 am (UTC)