How would you solve this problem?

[slayer202]

SWYgeW91IGZpZ3VyZSBvdXQgd2hhdCB0aGlzIHNheXMsIGdpdmUgdGhlIGFuc3dlciAxMDAw




Ready, Go...Ignore that space thats in there. not sure why its showing up like that

 

[zinfamous]

hold up....need to light up first.

 

[olds]

First thing I would do is punch you in the throat.

 

[Crusty]

1000

 

[BW86]

42

 

[shortylickens]

42

Everyone knows this. It cannot be denied.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Can we get some context? What are we even trying to do with a seemingly random string of characters? Are we meant to find an encrypted message in it? How do I know you're not just screwing with us?

 

[Crusty]

Can we get some context? What are we even trying to do with a seemingly random string of character? Are we meant to find an encrypted message in it? How do I know you're not just screwing with us?

It's base64, decoded it says

'If you figure out what this says, give the answer 1000'

 

[Ken g6]

0x3E8

Edit: Since Crusty posted the answer, what I posted is 1000 base 16.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Why was the same question posted here

http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4816409

 

[Ken g6]

SWYgeW91IGZpZ3VyZSBvdXQgd2hhdCB0aGlzIHNheXMsIGdpdmUgdGhlIGFuc3dlciAxMDAw

Edit: That is freaky how that space pops in there without code tags.

 

[Possessed Freak]

SWYgeW91IGZpZ3VyZSBvdXQgd2hhdCB0aGlzIHNheXMsIGdpdmUgdGhlIGFuc3dlciAxMDAw

Edit: That is freaky how that space pops in there without code tags.

Auto formatting for word wrap?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Edit: That is freaky how that space pops in there without code tags.

It stops people screwing up the page formatting by posted extremely long strings of text without spaces. Now people just fuck up the formatting with very large images.

 

[slayer202]

It's base64, decoded it says

'If you figure out what this says, give the answer 1000'

Thank you. Knew it was some kind of ascii or binary but couldn't decode it. Answer was for a friend. Not sure why the bimmer guy wanted to know also. how did you even find that?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Thank you. Knew it was some kind of ascii or binary but couldn't decode it. Answer was for a friend. Not sure why the bimmer guy wanted to know also. how did you even find that?

The google

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Ranidcl can you explain how this is encoded? I don't understand how you're finding base 64 numbers in the message. If each character can either be [0-9a-zA-Z] then there are only 62 possible values in each character. Furthermore there are 72 characters in the original message and 54 characters in your solution. Am I too stupid to understand this problem?

 

[dullard]

Ranidcl can you explain how this is encoded? I don't understand how you're finding base 64 numbers in the message. If each character can either be [0-9a-zA-Z] then there are only 62 possible values in each character. Furthermore there are 72 characters in the original message and 54 characters in your solution. Am I too stupid to understand this problem?

This will decode it for you. Note that decoder ignores the space, so you can too. Yes, 1000 is the right answer. And yes, 0-9a-zA-Z are the first 62 values in base 64 coding. The last two symbols are "+" and "/". How Crusty knew it was base 64 is up to him to answer.

Base64 creates 4 characters for every 3 characters you put in. 54*4/3 = 72.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

This will decode it for you. Note that decoder ignores the space, so you can too. Yes, 1000 is the right answer. And yes, 0-9a-zA-Z are the first 62 values in base 64 coding. The last two symbols are "+" and "/". How Crusty knew it was base 64 is up to him to answer.

Base64 creates 4 characters for every 3 characters you put in. 54*4/3 = 72.

Oh I see, I was assuming that it was base 64 with each number giving a single ascii character (eg, 0 gives 65 (ascii A), 1 gives 66 etc). Thanks dullard.

 

[Crusty]

This will decode it for you. Note that decoder ignores the space, so you can too. Yes, 1000 is the right answer. And yes, 0-9a-zA-Z are the first 62 values in base 64 coding. The last two symbols are "+" and "/". How Crusty knew it was base 64 is up to him to answer.

Base64 creates 4 characters for every 3 characters you put in. 54*4/3 = 72.

Just looking at the text it screams Base64 to me and testing to see if I got a plaintext output from decoding it was trivial. It was the first thing I thought of and the only thing I probably would have considered trying

 

[MichaelD]

I keep up with pretty much all current tech. PCs, laptops, netbooks, cellphones, home gadgets, home theater, etc. People I don't know come to me for advice b/c they heard from some friend of a friend that I knew something about thisgadgetthinghere.

But then there's this thread. A thread where some random 100+character thread of nonsense is posted by some dweeb as a challenge. And of course every freakin' I-do-fluid-dynamics-calculus-equations-for-breakfast-using-only-my-left-big-toe-and-a-small-cinammon-stick comes out of the woodwork with NOT ONLY the correct answer (HOW the hell do you even ascertain that the OP was even a question?!!), but some random, bored, Emo comment like "OH,....I noticed it was like...a semi-demi-quadratic-variable-onTuesday-only-moonphase-equation.....it was simple."


Know what? Screw you people! Seriously! Just...f'in screw you and your weirdo, plugged in wrong, unbalanced brains. What_the_hell is WRONG with you all that you think that way? Do you see a Cardinal land on the tree outside your window and wonder if it could fly that way with 43%-(*<<+_>23% of it's wings clipped off? Yeah, you probably do. Damn freaks.

Stay out of my head, OK?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

 

[IronWing]

How do you solve a problem like Maria?
How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

The thread title put that in my head so I thought I'd share. You're very welcome.

 

[El Guaraguao]

does not compute.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Looks like a snippet of an email virus.