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Stormtangent

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Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 33

New arrival

Hi everyone,

I discovered this forum in a search for interesting logic puzzles and programming exercises; ever since then, I have meandered through each of the quirky sections and found many topics discussed that interest me and many people after my own heart.  I have always loved solving that challenge math problem, writing that tricky program (like a word processor), cracking that seemingly impossible code, and this seems like a great place to talk with people that have similar interests.  It probably is also a good place to start getting into topics that have previously eluded me, such as calculus, and hone my skills in areas that I already know, such as trigonometry. 

By the way, I am going into ninth grade. 

Here's a fairly simple code to crack:

Hydrogen Iodine.  Holmium Tungsten Argon Yttrium Oxygen Uranium?

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anonimnystefy

Real Member

From: Harlan's World

Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 16,049

Re: New arrival

hi Stormtangent

Welcome to the forum!

The puzzle

HI.HoW Ar YOU? you are missing E.

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Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,621

Re: New arrival

hi Stormtangent,

Welcome! 

Have you considered Europium ?

bob

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anonimnystefy

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From: Harlan's World

Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 16,049

Re: New arrival

hi bob

Europium is Eu,so it wouldn't work.

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“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,621

Re: New arrival

Granted.  But then you can drop the

Yttrium Oxygen Uranium

and it works after a fashion.

Bob

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Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything;  you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you!  …………….Bob

anonimnystefy

Real Member

From: Harlan's World

Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 16,049

Re: New arrival

you get

HI.HoW ArE u?

which can work.

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“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,621

Re: New arrival

That's what I meant.

Bob

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Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything;  you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you!  …………….Bob

Stormtangent

Member

Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 33

Re: New arrival

True, true.  I dropped the E because I couldn't figure out a way to fit it in, but your way works perfectly bob.

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bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: New arrival

Hi Stormtangent;

Welcome to the forum.

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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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