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(boing!) Cnoocy Mosque O'Witz ([personal profile] cnoocy) wrote2007-05-02 11:55 am
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Numbers in the news

I am fascinated by the HD-DVD encoding key that is making the rounds of all the tech news. (Digg is a good source at the moment.) It's a number that's small enough to be tractable, but not obvious. I'm posting this so I can get back to work instead of spending the day looking for compact/elegant mathematical ways to express the number. (Something that's easy to memorize, say.) Feel free to try it yourselves!
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[identity profile] amabaku.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/05/01/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b/

not really as you requested but cute.

[identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I tried treating them as unicode, but out of 8 16-bit characters, the 4th is in the private use area (in CSUR, it's a digit in Zirinka, which doesn't seem to have digits) and the 5th is a High Surrogate. (The others are the Bengali currency symbol for a 16th, a piece of Hangul Jamo, and 4 obscure Unihan characters.)
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[personal profile] cnoocy 2007-05-02 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
The CSUR is a little scary sometimes.

[identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com 2007-05-02 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
 How about as an image, one byte per line? Here it is doubled in height and width.

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[personal profile] cnoocy 2007-05-02 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That's intriguingly coherent, if not memorizable. Is it solvable as a paint-by-numbers?
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