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i wonder if it can be brute-forced...
by bradwood 5y ago
i wonder if it can be brute-forced...
- zamadatix 5y agoI'm getting roughly 10^128 times the age of the universe at 1 trillion unique orderings checked per second. Still a chance though ;).
- bradwood 5y agoso an pi 4 should do it then.. ;)
- Taniwha 5y agoWell mostly I guess that the first part has to do with checking that the end of one page matches the beginning of the next, and makes sense (the "makes sense" bit probably can't be brute forced) - 100! is probably not easily brute forceable either - but I suspect that this is really a process something that might not actually be strictly factorial in nature. But once you've done that I think there's an actual mystery to solve as well - probably something that requires an actual human to read it
- beaconstudios 5y agogiven that the solution oracle is an actual human being, he might not be willing to yes/no that many proposed solutions.
- tshaddox 5y agoI doubt it, considering people have apparently submitted attempts which were unsuccessful. Assuming at least some of those were from fairly serious puzzle fans giving it a serious attempt, it’s probably not a puzzle where the solution is easily verifiable.