<div>Yeah, I saw this today too.</div><div><br></div><div>JB was also a physicist.</div><div><br></div><div>t * q - g * j * Z / YC =</div><div><br></div><div>time.. grams... YattaCoulombs... it's all kinda meaningless w/o context.</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>An SFBart blog has a clue to this ad's purveyor:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://sfbart.posterous.com/">http://sfbart.posterous.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>...an ad + marketing agency. Perhaps they are headhunting. Or trying to gain street cred for something silly by throwing it out for math geeks to compulsively snarl their grey matter over.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My first thought when I saw it was cipher text. I'm sleepy and done with this now, though.</div><div><br></div><div>--Naomi</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Glen Jarvis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com">glen@glenjarvis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Are the capital letters special matrix symbols? Or, am I making this<br>
too hard?<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Glen<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On Dec 16, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Glen Jarvis <<a href="mailto:glen@glenjarvis.com">glen@glenjarvis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> There's an ad I've seen a few times now while riding BART. The<br>
> background is red and the text reads:<br>
><br>
> Jacques Binet could have read this:<br>
> tq-gj*Z\YC<br>
><br>
> Can you?<br>
><br>
> I realize that Jacques Binet was a number theorist. However, I don't<br>
> understand the significance.<br>
><br>
> Is a 'think outside the box' riddle, or do I really need a<br>
> background in number theory to recognize/understand it?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Glen<br>
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