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[Hallry]

Originally Posted by mrnoble

I'm sure you've seen the tweet from @FIRSTweets.

Haven't. Link?

[JohnFogarty]

https://twitter.com/FIRSTweets/statu...93231369060352

With #2016Kickoff around the corner, let's re-watch the #FIRSTSTRONGHOLD teaser another 9328490238209 times, OK? OK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVLdJdoKK2E …

[DohertyBilly]

Originally Posted by Libby K

It's a twitter post. It's not a hint.

Ironically, this was the spotlight quote when I opened this thread...

[Jaci]

If it is a hint, be prepared to change all your code from Integers to Longs

9328490238209 > 2^31

[mastachyra]

Watching the video that many times would take almost 18 million years. so you know what that means? Me neither.

[Green Potato]

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

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by Green Potato

EDIT: The tweet did say "rewatch," so we may be working with 9328490238210

I believe this wording was used since we all watched it upon the original release.

[Anthony Galea]

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.

[MrForbes]

the number is code for "a really big number".

[mrnoble]

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.

[euhlmann]

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

[carpedav000]

Originally Posted by euhlmann

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

Or:
(insert equation stated above here)
5
2005
Tetras were the game piece in 2005
The field will be made of tetras!

[GeeTwo]

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.

[dardeshna]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

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.

Our head coach suggested looking at patents
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

[jvriezen]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

It has two prime factors: 1551037 and 6014357.

For an arbitrary 13 digit number, its pretty unlikely to have only two prime factors and both 7 digits is even less likely. I'd suggest that these two numbers are worth further investigation.

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