[Noisebridge-discuss] BART Ad: Jacques Binet

[joel jaeggli]

For the ad to serve it's purpose, it needs to be a string you can do something with. E.g. a phone number...

Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> wrote:

>I took one last stab at this ... looking at the sequences and trying to use
>a method from Binet on those numbers, reading the final result in ASCII.
>(Obviously, I'm not doing any of this by hand, but Python can knock this out
>in moments)...
>
>Anyhow, the biggest lead that I had was taking his use of the ratio between
>numbers in the Fibonacci sequence (which was a ratio between miles and
>kilometers in the original example), and using the same method on the ASCII
>equivalents.
>
>That is, how do the ASCII value fall in the 'next' fibonocci number as a
>character equivalent in ASCII. I got nuthin'..
>
>And, then, I got bored and put it away....   If there were other hints --
>like for example what Binet method to use, it'd be interesting again...
>
>I did learn about Binet's theorem however, in predicting any fibonacci
>number n, without having to know any other number in the sequence. For
>example, to know what value for n=10, without having to first calculate
>the proceeding 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 sequence...  that was
>interesting..
>
>Oh, and I happened to find the Wiki page on number theory which has a cool
>graph on the pattern that prime numbers make on a spiral (although no one
>knows why)...
>
>oh welll...
>
>
>On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hah. There's a google wave about it. I think ima get in on that just for
>> funs.
>>
>> So Peter, are you implying that it uses ASCII codes? Because I'm kinda
>> guessing Binet didn't have those memorized... I was interpreting the
>> ad's hint about JB understanding that literally.
>>
>> It does seem reasonable that it could be an EE releated equation.
>> Most of the letters could be meaningful variables, but I couldn't
>> parse the backslash.  I would assume that it had to do with number
>> theory, because of Binet.  Or a formula of his maybe.  det(AB) =
>> det(A) * det (B) I think?
>>
>> -Kelly
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, d p chang <weasel at meer.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > l'orthographe par l'iPhone
>> >
>> > Le Dec 19, 2009 à 12:43, Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com> a écrit :
>> >
>> >> > Are the capital letters special matrix symbols? Or, am I making this
>> >> > too hard?
>> >>
>> >> youre making this too hard. all ascii.
>> >>
>> >> I'm sorry, but I don't yet see a pattern from the ASCII:
>> >
>> > hmmm without giving too big if a hint. ASCII + an area of binet's work.
>> >
>> >
>> > the 'solution' isn't that interesting.
>> >
>> > \p
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