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Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective
by p-e-w 4y ago
Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.
- tasuki 4y agoMakes me wonder how many man-hours were spent on this now. Surely either it was luck that a person with this knowledge read the question, or an extremely large number of people read the question?
- Sander_Marechal 4y agoLinus's law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" - Eric S. Raymond
- GTP 4y agoOr maybe the one who answered just tried googling for an increasing sequence of those numbers. You can try by yourself to see if it works.
- gibolt 4y agoProbably someone with some good search engine skills. Considering most of the numbers are exact matches, searching for those exact numbers should result in a hit if it has been crawled
- kataklasm 4y agoYou assume that question could only have been with innate knowledge of the answer. But just by querying a search engine with two of the numbers I was able to get the same link: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22627418%22+%2219223530%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22627418%22+%2219223530%22 With DuckDuckGo it is even the only search result for the same two numbers and I didn't even have to quote them: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=627418+19223530 https://duckduckgo.com/?q=627418+19223530
- wjholden 4y agoTangentially related, I've had some success Googling constants before. For example, I once got interested in the constants in the Harris-Benedict function for estimating basal metabolic rates. By searching for these constants, I quickly found the original text and some other interesting related material. This approach generalizes to strings as well. In my field of computer networking, you're an easy search away from finding out what 0x0800 means with very little context. Searches can also work for numbers that don't look familiar. For example, you'd immediate recognize the first few digits of π, but you might not so easily recognize π²≈9.86960440109.
- rozab 4y agoI suppose the memory test would likely be in a book or pamphlet in the house
- emeril 4y agomaybe so, but it's unlikely, in the past, she would have been using an obscure memory test on the internet but instead would have been using something available right in the house