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First Floobles Factorization (Posted on 2013-10-04)

Given:
The factorization into 3 factors:
FLOOBLES= S*FSBS*FADO

Question:
What can be stated about my diet?

Answer:
2 534 31 1274 1338

Assignment:
Decode the answer

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

Rating: 4.0000 (2 votes)

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Cheating on my Diet (spoiler)

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I chose to start backwards by decoding the answer.

It appears that 2 is A and 31 is OF,

so I came up with A LOT OF FAST FOOD

That makes the factorization

1533B5E7 = 7*17B7*1283

Fortunately, the problem only asks for a decode of the answer, not of the factorization, so I don't need to figure out that

15330567 = 7*1707*1283.

It wouldn't be too hard, though, because if B > 0 then the product of the three factors is greater than 15,400,000.

Posted by Steve Herman on 2013-10-04 17:34:10

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