Looo.lol – a binary math site • Hacker News Board

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by otteromkram » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 1:49 AM UTC

savef wrote: post #34

dkimbel wrote: post #30

If you're into binary math games, also see Flippy Bit And The Attack Of The Hexadecimals From Base 16 (note: site has sound). https://flippybitandtheattackofthehexadecimalsfrombase16.com...

I'm gonna check this out - thanks. I also play this one which I think was posted on HN a while ago: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=go.lang.bintri...

Awesome concept, but it looks like the limit is 4 bits. I hope future iterations expand on that (for added challenge, of course).

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by wrboyce » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 1:54 AM UTC

H8crilA wrote: post #20

wrboyce wrote: post #9

Great domain name, but the certificate isn’t trusted on my iPhone (iOS 17).

Do you somehow have the wrong date? Because the cert is valid.

It’s working now, I wonder if it was related to the public WiFi I was using earlier. I’ll try it again next time I am there, everything else seemed to be working fine.

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by wayvey » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 2:18 AM UTC

smudgy wrote: post #10

The examples are Nice numbers, nice.

Exactly my thoughts 10100111001!

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by agalunar » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 2:36 AM UTC

culi wrote: post #31

kenniskrag wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can edit the url to use any number. :)

a specific example: https://looo.lol/?x=666

Or https://looo.lol/?x=1, https://looo.lol/?x=2, or https://looo.lol/?x=-1 (good luck!), or https://looo.lol/?x=10...0 ("Infinity", if you replace the ellipsis with 306 zeroes or so).

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 2:43 AM UTC

Anyone else mindlessly go from left to right?

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by matthewfcarlson » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 2:47 AM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #45

Anyone else mindlessly go from left to right?

It's the easiest way to do it and frankly what I did in college.

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by tamimio » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 3:49 AM UTC

This is cool, it somehow reminds me with a Resident Evil 3 (the old one) game puzzle, can’t remember what puzzle but it had similar concept.

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by perth » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 4:07 AM UTC

Bad on mobile unfortunately. The CSS doesn’t wrap for portrait screens

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by mshadow5 » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 5:59 AM UTC

This is pretty cool. Better if includes signed integers.

Re: Looo.lol – a binary math site

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Post by whatyesaid » Sat, Jan 06, 2024, 6:33 AM UTC

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #45

Anyone else mindlessly go from left to right?

That's the correct way... big adjustments on left-hand side until you're ready for small-adjustments on right-hand side. This game takes less than 2 minutes.

You could expand this game with much more advanced operations and tricks that people devised but I guess those would involve algorithms too. Floating point would be a good expansion and much better interactively than a textbook.