9328490238209

[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

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by FRC Blog, 10/2/15

When is a Game Hint not a Game Hint?

There are probably a few good answers to this question, including:

1. When it’s not preceded by words equivalent to “This is a game hint”

Answer number one I think many of you are familiar with, as we’ve said something along those lines several times in this blog.

Source: http://archive.firstinspires.org/rob...ot-a-game-hint

[Anthony4004]

Originally Posted by Hallry

Source: http://archive.firstinspires.org/rob...ot-a-game-hint

After being asked via twitter "Is 9328490238209 a game hint?", @FIRSTtweets responded with "I don't know...is it? "

In the sake of being excited for kickoff, I want to believe it is a game hint.

[MrMARVINMan]

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.