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What's up with this number? I'm sure you've seen the tweet from @FIRSTweets.
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https://twitter.com/FIRSTweets/statu...93231369060352
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If it is a hint, be prepared to change all your code from Integers to Longs ;)
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Watching the video that many times would take almost 18 million years. so you know what that means? Me neither.
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Tried multiplying it by 57 (57 second runtime), and got this number:
531723943577913. From what I can tell so far, neither number has any real significance, although I'm still going to try and pry meaning out of it. EDIT: The tweet did say "rewatch," so we may be working with 9328490238210 |
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I'm just gonna say it plain and simple. It isn't a game hint. And even if it is, we have 7 days until kickoff. Don't worry guys, your FRC hiatus will be over soon.
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the number is code for "a really big number".
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Oh, I think it's probably a clue. In the same way that "moonfish" was a clue for Lunacy. Useless, a waste of time, gives away nothing, sends you down a rabbit hole. Still, seems like the kind of clue we've gotten in the past. And I agree that we should just wait to see in a week.
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What if its the exact number of molecule allowed on any one robot? No more, no less.
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9328490238209.
9 - 3 - 2 - 8 - 4 - 9 - 0 - 2 - 3 - 8 - 2 - 0 - 9 is -41 4+1 is 5 water has 5 letters water game confirmed |
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It has two prime factors: 1551037 and 6014357. They're both (US, within area code) phone-number length, though neither could have been a 7-digit phone number until recently, due to the leading 1 in one case and the middle 0 in the other.
Edit: Looking at the factors upside-down gives: LEOSSI and LSEhI0g. Nothing here.... Edit2: A 21-bit and a 23-bit number aren't big enough to be a decent public/private key pair. No, I don't believe that, but I may try it out. |
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http://www.google.com/patents/US6014357 http://www.google.com/patents/US1551037 Also a quick google search https://www.phoenixcontact.com/onlin...ary=usen&tab=1 |
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In the sake of being excited for kickoff, I want to believe it is a game hint. |
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We have a tendency to make anything a game hint...it's all fun....
Someone already related it to water, so the rest is gravy |
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This number (9328490238209) when converted from hexadecimal to text, becomes 39 33 32 38 34 39 30 32 33 38 32 30 39. When these numbers are plugged into in ASCII table, they become these characters: ‘! &”’RS !& RS’. Why does this matter? When this is googled, the search comes up with a few things about remote sensing. Remote sensing, if you don’t know, is the scanning of the earth by satellite or high-flying aircraft in order to obtain information about it. Why is this relevant? Two reasons:
1. The day FIRST released this , AndyMark released this mysterious video . 2. Today, AndyMark tweeted a little GIF that was retweeted by FIRST. What do the two videos from AndyMark have in common? Treads. What do treads and remote sensing have to do with an FRC game? Remote sensing = images of terrain. Treads = meant for traversing rough terrain. AndyMark is now selling “Rhino Track Modules” .These modules are perfectly priced for FRC and are being released just days before the season begins. If it isn’t obvious by this point, it should be obvious now. The field will be different this year (the 24th anniversary of Maize Craze). Our robots must traverse rough terrain to accomplish the assigned task (but that’s a theory for another day). Plus, we’re going to war, right? A deciding factor in any battle is the terrain upon which it is fought.:cool: |
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Okay, here's what I have. I believe the logo that appears several times in the FRC Stronghold teaser video is a re-styled Welsh Dragon, which happens to be the symbol of the Football Association of Wales. (Note, they refer to football in the sense of what we Americans call "soccer").
Furthermore, I took the first 7 digits of the number clue to be the IP address of 93.28.49.0 which traces to the town of Dunkirk, France. See anything familiar on their coat of arms? Also, from this town is a football player by the name of Robert Malm, who played in the 2006 World Cup. Dunkirk had an interesting history through the Middle Ages, including the construction of a town wall to protect against viking raids. In the late 13th century, the citizens of Dunkirk fought in the Battle of the Golden Spurs, after which Guy, Count of Flanders gained "de facto autonomy." Additionally, the Flemish townspeople laid siege upon a castle during the battle. A map of the battle area shows similarities to scenes in the Stronghold video, including flags atop tents. So, what do I gather from all this? Some teams will construct a wall. Others will knock it down by shooting footballs (of the American variety, because the Security Breach video said we've never seen this game piece before) at it, and autonomous mode will be different, possibly at the end. Or, if the game piece is not an American style football, it will be the JW Hol-ee Roller, because that looks more like a soccer ball, and fits more closely with the more global style of "football" and is offered through multiple outlets in red and blue, and is durable. In fact, I think that is more likely. It was previously suggested as a game piece in this post in 2006. EDIT: And wouldn't ya know it, the Hol-ee Roller comes in a football shape too. Here's your game piece guys. sanddrag has spoken. |
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The tread thing has some credence - I wouldn't be surprised if the KOP kit has treads this year because of the AndyMark video, and the blog post that states that the KOP chassis can execute "basic game play".
Can you believe this thing is 6 days away?!?!?! Can't wait! EDIT: From the blog post: "If we revealed details such as ground clearance, we would be giving away too much of the game.". Almost proof that there's obstacles on the field. Also, if you follow FTC, keep in mind this year's game (not that it has anything to do with FRC, but it has randomly distributed obstacles) |
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(insert equation stated above here) 5 2005 Tetras were the game piece in 2005 The field will be made of tetras! :cool: |
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http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp...System-Opt-Out -Nick |
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9+3+2+8+4+9+0+2+3+8+2+0+9 = 59
Psalms 59:1 Deliver me from my enemies, O God; be my fortress against those who are attacking me. fortress stronghold significance? |
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New game: door-to-door evangelism
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While I am pretty sure this isn't a hint, if you look up the number before and after the center zero you get dark pink and dark lime green. The only time in FRC I remember those colors is the vision targets in 2009. (if this was a hint, that could mean we will have 2009 style mobile goals with blue and red flags on top)
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Its the sum of all the askii codes of all the characters in the encryption password possibly...
or some other mathematical equation... |
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Interpreting the original number as decimal gives "0x01" as the last byte, which can't map to 39 no matter how hard I try. Interpreting it as hexadecimal gives "0x09"; no better. Having 9s, it can't be octal. As far as I can tell, MrMARVINMan's post is all smoke that doesn't even bother with mirrors. Edit: Quote:
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Interesting that the FLL field mat had a similar (even if unrelated) "easter egg" cipher this year:
http://ev3lessons.com/images/resources/puzzles/2015.jpg And yes, some teams did decrypt it. |
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ETA: And those are made of rubber.... Something about a rubber duck clue in the "security breach" video... |
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Ascii? Lets do Old School. Use the numbers on the phone pad and covert to words. Too lazy? Use this one: http://phonespell.org/
we-at-I-90-a-eta-09 It's clear, Frank is on the road looking for Corn Dogs. He's on I90, his ETA back is on the 9th. But as with all clues, it's not much of a help, since I90 runs from Seattle to Boston. Coast to Coast. Oh wait is Coast to Coast a clue? Or I90 the clue since it goes past Cambridge in Boston, and there is a Cambridge in England that would have been there in medieval times? |
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Plus, aren't all the different components supposed to be related? As in the castles and 9328490238209 |
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Robotics is the hardest fun you will have... Sanddrag referenced the Battle of the Golden Spurs at which the opposing forces were very dissimilar i.e. mounted knights vs. infantry. I think the GDC might well consider having two game pieces with different gameplay characteristics and design considerations. |
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9328490238209 is somewhere around the national debt at this point in 2008.
Overdrive mk. II anybody? |
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well, it's not an ISBN or barcode number...
Unless it's for a product being released AFTER kickoff? |
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Not to kill the life of the party, but it could be as simple as someone smashing their hand on the number pad...
Just saying... |
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Maybe someone tried to spell something out on a phone keypad or make patterns with the numbers? Not sure how to treat the 0's for a phone keypad. |
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After splitting it into two-digit numbers, it becomes 93 28 49 02 38 20 9. 93 and 02 could be references to the games in 1993 and 2002..."Rug Rage" could maybe be a field hint?
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I tried splitting it several ways, and got this:
93 28 49 02 38 20 9 9 3 2 8 4 9 0 2 3 8 2 0 9 932 849 023 82 09 9328 4902 3820 9 93284 90238 209 932849 023820 9 There is often a stray 9...9 years after 1992 = 2001. Maybe more hints are in the 2001 game? Could the numbers be references to team numbers? In 1993, there were water-filled balls...maybe the Hol-ee balls will be filled with something? |
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This post is truly a testament to how frenzied FRC members can get days before Kickoff as well as how many FRC members have top-tier decryption ideas. Truly amazing.
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I just hope that treads would be optional. If not, I sense a lot of frustration and anger in the future.
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Has anybody checked to see if it is the password to the game manual?
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Either the entire thing is a ruse and they chose the product of two relatively small primes just to lead to further useless lines of attack, or else the prime numbers are significant. Since its unlikely that the messages would directly encode into primes, maybe this: 1551037 = 117739th prime 6014357 = 413787th prime |
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Zebu is a type of oxen. Maybe oxen on field? EDIT: web tiz beta x also works... |
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There are 586081 7 digit prime numbers. This means there are about 2*10^11 numbers with only 2 7 digit primes as factors. Only about 1 in 5 of these are 13 digits. There are about 10^14 13 digit numbers. this means the probability of this as a random occurrence is about 1 in 250 (0.4%) This is a large enough probability to encode data, but small enough probability to indicate significance. 117739 only has two factors excluding one and itself. They are both prime 281 (50th prime) 419 (81st prime) This also seems improbable, only about 10,000 numbers with exclusively 3 digit prime factors exist. Not all of these will be 7 digits. The odds of one of these numbers having this characteristic will be about 1.6%. People should look deeper into this. |
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I have a feeling that combining multiple ideas together will be the key to the answer and potentially an early game... |
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Well I decided to look into the history of teams with the same team numbers as listed. If you go in order from the begging starting with 9. (Number for reference 9328490238209) 9 does not exist anymore. 3 no longer exists. 2 no longer exists. 8 does exist, but when changed to 84, that team does not exist. 9 does not exist. 0 does not exist. 2 does not exist. 3 does not exist. 8 does exist, but 82 does not exist. 0 does not exist. 9 does not exist.
I don't know if this means anything, but I find it interesting that most of the numbers that are listed are of teams that do not exist excluding 8 and 4. Yet when 8 is combined with the net number in the sequence that team does not exist. 9 is listed on TBA but stopped playing years ago. Maybe research into team names or something common of the teams that don't exist? I used TBA to look up team numbers. I find it hard to believe that it is possible for this to happen so easily... |
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I found this definition of beta on Merriam Webster. Quote:
They want to baffle us so they give us something as hard as this. :ahh: Thank you FIRST. :eek: |
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It is the 25th anniversary of first odds this is a coincidence are less than 1 in 3000 (.033%) Plus disney makes motion pictures |
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If you take the four digits that aren't in the number (1, 5, 6, 7) and shuffle them a little, you get 1675, which is the number for the team 'The Ultimate Protection Squad'. Maybe a coincidence, maybe not.
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I think that some of the ideas in this forum are exaggerations, and we should remember everything that was given to us.
All we can confirm is that the teaser is a hint. We are not sure this number even has any significance. I feel that they gave us this as a troll, but again, we do not know anything until kickoff, or we somehow decrypt the manual. It could be a hint, this mystery is FIRST's mission to add to the ambiguity that is already existent. I would like to see what Frank thinks about this discussion. It would be interesting to see an insiders view on our discussions as outsiders. I would like to see what we think about this discussion AFTER kickoff when we know the game and we are insiders... |
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Frank said on Spotlight they are just random numbers.
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Like someone said before, this thread is a testament to how much the chief delphi community is excited for kickoff, and the season to follow. It is an outlet for the excitement of another great season of FIRST getting underway. Plus, if you get even some of the hint right, you get some serious bragging rights come saturday. |
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This is what our team found out (quoting this thread: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...php?t=140959):
" Ahh.... do you smell that? Yes, yes! Kickoff is closer than ever and everyone is preparing! Until then, everyone is busy hunting for clues to the game, and just like you, Tiger Team 2679 is on the issue! Here are our findings: on the 31.12 First tweeted the following tweet. The obvious question rising is "What is that number (9328490238209) ??" Here is our answer: We noticed there is a sequence of palindromic numbers: 9280829 (9328490238209) If we'll ignore these numbers, we are left with there numbers: 349230 (9328490238209) A quick search and we find a Steam URL : http://store.steampowered.com/app/349230/ Interesting, right? We thought so as well. The game is called Stronghold Crusader 2: The Templar and The Duke. Also interesting. Is this a coincidence? Is this related to the manual password? Did North Korea really detonate a hydrogen bomb? To answer all those questions we (team 2679) need you help, wonderful community! We'll be happy to see what you think in the replies below! Don't forget to like our facebook page! " enjoy |
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Doing a search of 9328490238209 led me to this website: http://world-en.openfoodfacts.org/product/9328490238209. The website gives the nutrition facts for an item with the barcode 9328490238209. The nutrition facts are very incomplete. In fact, there is only one piece of information given: 100 g / 100 mL. What substance weighs one gram per milliliter? Water. I think you guys can connect the dots from here.
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The steam game looks interesting though. Lucky coincidence? |
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Appears to be slightly-scrambled GPS location for a castle in France called "Château de Robert le Diable". Look it up in Google/Wikipedia. The castle tower looks just like the tower in the teaser video. The actual long/lat of the castle is 49.3396, 0.9597.
The 1st half of the code, 932849, gets rearranged to something like 49.2893, and the 2nd half, 238209 get's rearranged to 0.9(something). It doesn't match exactly; there is some additional "tweak" missing to get an exact match on the longitude/latitude. Probably has something to do with the length of the video (57 SECONDS) since longitude/lat can also be represented in degrees/minutes/seconds. (Since the tweet mentioned watching the video again). Maybe have to add in some multiple of 57 seconds to the long/lat, or something like that. What does it mean? Not much. It just keeps alive the concept of a tower and/or defensive stronghold. VaxHeadRoom |
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I've got two approaches not yet fully explored in this thread.
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9802349802349 9823498234980 0982348239834 9823490823940 9234908982349 9328490238209 Three fingers each from two different hands... Definitely two distinct alliances, and three robots on each alliance... Could be 13 game pieces that can only be scored once... Or maybe just 13 scoring events that happen to occur during the game unveil video, and which robot scores each one... Left hand scores 6 times, but right hand scores 7 times... Right hand wins! Maybe. Depends on whether or not there are different point values for different kinds of scoring... ---------------------------------------------------- SECOND: Alternatively, we can look at the number of times each digit appears within the so-called random number: 1 --> 0 times 2 --> 3 times 3 --> 2 times 4 --> 1 time 5 --> 0 times 6 --> 0 times 7 --> 0 times 8 --> 2 times 9 --> 3 times 0 --> 2 times This gives us our second-step number as either 0321000232 or 2032100023, depending on whether the 0 digit is low or high. We could also drop the zeros, giving us either 321232 or 232123 depending on whether the zero digit was low or high, and these two numbers are curiously mirror images of one another. 0321000232 and 2032100023 could be phone numbers, but neither one gave me any particularly promising results when I searched them. #321232 is a deep plum color, whereas #232123 is about 23 shades of grey darker than pure white (also two shades lighter than pure black, and one shade lighter than the standard "black" color defined in the 2015-edition FIRST Style Guide). If we mash 321232 and 232123 together, we get either 321232232123 or 232123321232. Both of these numbers seem fairly dead-end based on my searching, so I think Imma go with my first approach above as being the most promising explanation out of these two. |
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As the game manual was just posted, it is NOT the password. At this point, I'm thinking it's just a bunch of random numbers.
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According to Frank, it's random. Something tells me we should believe him for our sanity.
http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/numbers |
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So sad, it's like finding out there is no Santa Claus.
I feel bad for Haley Dunn, the person that created the number. Can you imagine her watching this thread going "But, but I just made it up?!?" I'm going to award JesseK the winner with this post: Quote:
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