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Post by Evan on Nov 8, 2013 14:15:34 GMT -8
Here's this week's puzzle. Remember, the prize for winning is an extra vote: - Substitute a number for each letter of the alphabet. e.g. A=1, B=2, etc. You can use the same number for different letters. - Now use those substitutions to turn the listed passenger names into numbers. So if B=1, R=2, A=7, and D=7, then BRAD = 1277 - The player who makes the most prime numbers this way, wins. - Bonus point for making your own number into prime - Dead can play. If a dead person wins they get to cancel someone's vote. I will still give an extra vote to the highest scoring living passenger - Ties will be broken by the total number of digits in all of the prime numbers To enter, send me your list of number-letter substitutions, the names you turned into prime numbers, and those prime numbers you made Here is the list: Alex Amer Annie BigSexy Brad Chris Commando Deviant DJhopps Erik Farrell Fatty Mike Neutrino PaulaKoala Peppperettte Sarah Son Stabby Stinky Pete True Tulley Zac For reference, here's a list of the first 1,000,000 prime numbers primes.utm.edu/lists/small/100000.txtand here is a site you can use to check and see if a number is prime www.math.com/students/calculators/source/prime-number.htm
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Nov 8, 2013 15:35:00 GMT -8
nm im wrong
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Post by Ron Wednesday on Nov 8, 2013 15:51:00 GMT -8
- Ties will be broken by the total number of digits in all of the prime numbers
Explain.
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Post by Evan on Nov 8, 2013 16:06:05 GMT -8
- Ties will be broken by the total number of digits in all of the prime numbers Explain. If one person submits Brad and one person submits Tulley, the Tulley person wins because it has more total letters
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Nov 8, 2013 16:55:45 GMT -8
I assume Stinky Pete will be StinkyPete for the purposes of this challenge?
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Annie McClarabow
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Post by Annie McClarabow on Nov 8, 2013 18:12:26 GMT -8
I assume Stinky Pete will be StinkyPete for the purposes of this challenge? I will be calling him "Dusty." It serves my purposes better.
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Post by Evan on Nov 11, 2013 7:12:43 GMT -8
0 can't be the beginning of a number
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Post by Son Anheuser on Nov 11, 2013 10:37:29 GMT -8
Math.....
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Post by Stinky Pete on Nov 11, 2013 15:21:15 GMT -8
My prime number generator kept shitting itself over the weekend so I gave up because I had an operating systems assignment, but here's a fun prime number:
1000000000000066600000000000001
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Post by Annie McClarabow on Nov 11, 2013 17:39:37 GMT -8
My prime number generator kept shitting itself over the weekend so I gave up because I had an operating systems assignment, but here's a fun prime number: 1000000000000066600000000000001 I'm too tired to count the digits. What -illion is that?
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Post by Evan on Nov 11, 2013 17:43:25 GMT -8
Amer wins the right to cancel out a vote. Zac had a very close second place entry! No living player wins the right to an extra vote, correct me if I'm wrong please
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Nov 11, 2013 18:13:18 GMT -8
So no living player won immunity? I am confused.
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Post by Amer on Nov 11, 2013 18:29:09 GMT -8
My prime number generator kept shitting itself over the weekend so I gave up because I had an operating systems assignment, but here's a fun prime number: 1000000000000066600000000000001 I'm too tired to count the digits. What -illion is that? 1 nonillion 66 quadrillion 600 trillion 1. Belphegor's Prime. If you aren't paying attention, you'll miss the evil 666 hidden in the middle. Amer wins the right to cancel out a vote. Zac had a very close second place entry! No living player wins the right to an extra vote, correct me if I'm wrong please Yesss! I let my program run for two hours and checked over 20 million combinations, which gave me a result of 14. Then I decided to try running it without any even numbers, and in around five minutes, I got a 16. I managed to send in the answer at 4:59pm. Primes: 16. 17 with name bonus. Tie-breaker: 86.
alex.........3,931...........Prime amer.........3,931...........Prime annie........31,193..........Prime bigsexy......3,959,317.......17 brad.........3,137...........Prime chris........15,199..........Prime commando.....17,993,177......Prime deviant......7,379,311.......29 djhopps......7,157,999.......Prime erik.........3,191...........Prime farrell......5,311,399.......241 fatty........53,117..........Prime mike.........9,913...........23 neutrino.....13,511,917......Prime paulakoala...9,359,317,393...Prime peppperettte.939,993,131,113.69,931 sarah........93,135..........3 son..........971.............Prime stabby.......913,337.........Prime stinkypete...9,191,179,313...967 true.........1,153...........Prime tulley.......159,937.........Prime zac..........131.............Prime
a:3 b:3 c:1 d:7 e:3 f:5 g:5 h:5 i:9 j:1 k:1 l:9 m:9 n:1 o:7 p:9 q:5 r:1 s:9 t:1 u:5 v:7 w:7 x:1 y:7 z:1Let me know if you want to see the code. It's 200 lines (it's multithreaded). I'm curious how the non-programmers did.
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Post by Peppperettte Paige on Nov 11, 2013 20:34:55 GMT -8
So no living player won immunity? I am confused. Remember, the prize for winning is an extra vote:
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Nov 11, 2013 20:56:33 GMT -8
Remember, the prize for winning is an extra vote: In past challenges the dead were scored in their own tally, not combined with the living. Plus: - Dead can play. If a dead person wins they get to cancel someone's vote. I will still give an extra vote to the highest scoring living passenger
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Post by Annie McClarabow on Nov 11, 2013 21:38:31 GMT -8
Did any living player enter?
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Post by Evan on Nov 12, 2013 4:01:50 GMT -8
Oh wait. Tulley won the extra vote. I overlooked his entry
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Nov 12, 2013 8:00:12 GMT -8
Yay!
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Post by Super Sarah on Nov 12, 2013 9:19:50 GMT -8
Nice! I skipped this challenge because... numbers... also I just started a new position at work so I didn't have time.
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Post by Tulley Kennedy on Nov 12, 2013 11:23:52 GMT -8
Just like a spy would do - oh wait I can't beat that drum anymore. On to TRUE!
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