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xaq_the_aereonPosted this over on Tumblr earlier, figured I'd share over here for those who got out of that cesspool. :]
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You are trapped in a 2-room prison. In the first room is a machine that can dispense any amount of any piece of legal US currency from a penny up to a $100 bill.
You can take up to 30 pieces of currency with you, but you can take less if you want. You must take at least 1 piece of each type. Once you have the currency you want to take, you must go to the next room; the door between the two will lock behind you.
In the second room is a lockbox with the key to the exit inside it and a coin slot / bill receptor on its side. When you enter the room, the lockbox will be randomly assigned a price anywhere from $0.01 all the way up to $1000.00.
You MUST have exact change for whatever price is given in order to open it, get the key, and escape.
What must you take from the first room to ensure you will be able to escape, no matter what the randomly-assigned price is?
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You are trapped in a 2-room prison. In the first room is a machine that can dispense any amount of any piece of legal US currency from a penny up to a $100 bill.
You can take up to 30 pieces of currency with you, but you can take less if you want. You must take at least 1 piece of each type. Once you have the currency you want to take, you must go to the next room; the door between the two will lock behind you.
In the second room is a lockbox with the key to the exit inside it and a coin slot / bill receptor on its side. When you enter the room, the lockbox will be randomly assigned a price anywhere from $0.01 all the way up to $1000.00.
You MUST have exact change for whatever price is given in order to open it, get the key, and escape.
What must you take from the first room to ensure you will be able to escape, no matter what the randomly-assigned price is?
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Date: 12/17/17 04:16 (UTC)[Edited to ROT13 my guess.]
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Date: 12/17/17 04:39 (UTC)[Edited to Al Bhed my response.]
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Date: 12/17/17 04:42 (UTC)(Translation: "Feh.")
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Date: 12/17/17 04:45 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/17/17 05:18 (UTC)10 x $100
1 x $50
4 x $10
1 x $5
4 x $1
1 x $0.50
4 x $0.10
1 x $0.05
4 x $0.01
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Date: 12/17/17 05:56 (UTC)(−) “You must take at least 1 piece of each type.” (also you might want to obscure answers somehow? Dunno if that's a thing here but![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
xyzzysqrl and Illum were both doing it)
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Date: 12/17/17 06:15 (UTC)(ROT13) Gnxr zl cerivbhf nafjre ohg fjnc bar bs gur bar uhaqerq qbyyne ovyyf sbe n dhnegre, naq bar bs gur bar qbyyne ovyyf sbe n gjb qbyyne ovyy. Fubhyq fgvyy jbex jvgu gubfr. Nz V zvffvat nal qrabzvangvbaf? Vs V'z zvffvat rknpgyl bar, fjnc nabgure bar bs gur bar qbyyne ovyyf sbe gung.
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Date: 12/17/17 07:53 (UTC)(Once again done with Al Bhed because I feel like being different and I genuinely like Final Fantasy X.)
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Date: 12/17/17 12:52 (UTC)Edit: Ur, drana ec y tahusehydeuh E vunkud; dra dfahdo. E tet cyo cyfb yhudran uha (cu fa'na tufh du dfu) vun ed ev dryd rybbahat. Du nalyb frana fa'na yd yd drec buehd:
Heha rihtnatc
Uha vevdo
Uha dfahdo
Vuin dahc
Uha veja
Uha dfu
Dfu uhac
Uha vevdo lahd beala
Uha xiyndan
Vuin tesac
Uha helgam
Vuin bahheac
Axiymc drendo bealac uv linnahlo
Dryd sygac yh ajah druicyht ajah aycean, eh dryd lyca: Dra heha rihtnatc, dra vevdo, dra dfahdo, yht drnaa dahc.
Yho SUNA tahusehydeuhc E's vunkaddehk? Ev cu, oui lyh bnupypmo cfyb uha uv dra dahc vun ed yd drec buehd.
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Date: 12/17/17 07:17 (UTC)I am not right.
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Date: 12/17/17 04:52 (UTC)no subject
Date: 12/17/17 05:57 (UTC)[reposting at the top level because Illum got the reply link wrong; original posted at 23:03 local (most of an hour ago)]
(+) My answer:
The concatenation of the counts of each type of currency, in descending order of denomination, is
(11 + (61 × (95768800100 + 53610070574))).
The total number of pieces of currency taken is
((13512589 + 29399375) ÷ 1589332).
To be clear on the interpretation, in case I've gotten part of it wrong:
The concatenation of the banknote denominations, in descending order of dollars, with nines between them, is
(107 × 943466550569713).
The concatenation of the coin denominations, in descending order of cents, with nines between them, is
(113 × 8933710257607).
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Date: 12/17/17 08:08 (UTC)SPOILER ALERT