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Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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I got the email, but puzzle isn't complete. Don't understand whats missing. Maybe correct email subject?

I see. I still haven't been able to decipher it to get the email address, how were you able to?

Maybe this can help

Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom.

Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?

Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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I see. I still haven't been able to decipher it to get the email address, how were you able to?

Maybe this can help Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom. Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?

Hm well it's the 53rd letter, and the pi number is "48".

I've tried adding them up and the ASCII of the letter to try to get the actual decrypted letter but that doesn't seem to work so well. :C

Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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Maybe this can help Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom. Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?

Hm well it's the 53rd letter, and the pi number is "48". I've tried adding them up and the ASCII of the letter to try to get the actual decrypted letter but that doesn't seem to work so well. :C

Looking too far

pi is 3.14592653589793238462643383

See a 53 in there? :)

Then what position is the dot? See that number in there?

Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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Maybe this can help Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom. Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?

Hm well it's the 53rd letter, and the pi number is "48". I've tried adding them up and the ASCII of the letter to try to get the actual decrypted letter but that doesn't seem to work so well. :C

then again, as I said before, I'm not sure this email is the valid one. I got an answer, but not the one expected...

Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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it's 100 symbols without spaces, so email shouldn't be that long, so may be: a) several cipher symbols mean 1 clear text symbol or b) you must skip some symbols my interpretation of "if you throw a pi at the wall, does it break into chunks of two" - take pi value in binary like 11.00100100001111110110... and assume, that 1 means keep symbol, 0 means discard it, but that didn't produce meaningfull email :( Such interp…

i too am struggling...can anyone who solved give more hints?

i am through..got the email :)

Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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I see. I still haven't been able to decipher it to get the email address, how were you able to?

Maybe this can help Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom. Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?

perfect hint! follow it :) it works

Re: The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

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Maybe this can help Tip #1 : 100 letters all numbered from 1 to 100 when reading from left to right then top to bottom. Tip #2: Take pi and split into pieces of 2. At what position is the @ sign?

perfect hint! follow it :) it works

did you get a confirmation?
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