OT: pointless number game (WAS: Re: 3KID, is this a new operating system?)

[Christopher Chisholm]

same here.  8 is a mystery.  I tried 10n (i think that's correct octal 
notation), still nothing.  lets DOS the server in vengeance >:-)

-chris c


Ben Scott wrote:
> On 7/12/06, Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
>> Try this out: http://n.nfshost.com/  How far can you make it?
>
>  Cute.  But, I admit to being stumped for what the URL for 8
> (decimal) should be.
>
>  7 (decimal) is encoded as an ASCII representation of binary.  Thus:
>
> http://n.nfshost.com/111.html
>
>  That yields a page with "sept", which is a numeric prefix for 7.  I
> figured that would mean eight would be encoded as "oct", "octo", or
> "octa", but none of those work.  I tried all sorts of other things
> (variations and semi-random guesses), but got nowhere.  What am I
> missing?
>
> I tried:
> oct
> octo
> octa
> 1000
> 10
> octal
> Oct
> OCT
> 8
> eight
> OOOOOO
> VIII
> iiiiiiii
> IIIIIIII
> sept
> oct-
> octa-
> octo-
> help
> about
> eat_flaming_death
>
>  But none of those worked.
>
>  Now I'm not going to get anything done today.
>
>  This is going to drive me crazy.
>
>  It's all your fault!
>
>  Crazy I tell ya!
>
>  Crazy?  I was crazy once.  I lit things on fire.  Fire?  I hate
> fire.  It drives me crazy.  Crazy?  I was crazy once...
>
> -- Ben "CRAZY!!!" Scott
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