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Crackers (Posted on 2002-12-25) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Can you crack the code used to transform the following numbers and come up with the final number?
    2461289=18
    11029447=1
    6332516=333561
    412961044=4141
    2234=23
    357924242=222
    139=9
    4344199=?

(hint by levik: the encoding is such that it will only work on some numbers, not all integers)

  Submitted by Cory Taylor    
Rating: 3.6667 (15 votes)
Solution: (Hide)
The answer is 4444

In each number, the transformation has the number of digits equal to the first digit. Each of the digits contained is then the rank of the following numbers.

i.e. 2461289=18 because the first digit is 2 (telling us there are 2 digits in the answer), the next digit is 4, showing that the first digit is the fourth of the original number (1), and the next number is the sixth digit of the original number (8)

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  Subject Author Date
SolutionPuzzle SolutionK Sengupta2008-04-01 13:17:12
answerK Sengupta2008-01-22 03:50:30
SolutionTristan2003-09-28 13:05:20
not sure for suredorkdork2003-08-02 23:08:00
Solutionre: This is as far as I got.Cheradenine2002-12-26 04:11:17
This is as far as I got.Drew R.2002-12-25 18:09:19
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