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All the 4 images posted by the author are located precisely at the begiging of a hexadecimal digit. Since a hexadecimal digit is 4-bit long, I guess we should
by esnard 4y ago
All the 4 images posted by the author are located precisely at the begiging of a hexadecimal digit.
Since a hexadecimal digit is 4-bit long, I guess we should be able to locate 4x more Waldos if we allow solutions to be start in the middle of a hex digit?
> The pixel data in this gif are the 23,074,248th through 23,075,235th hexadecimal digits of π! (Equivalently, the 184,593,977th through 184,601,880th bits).
The author assumes a hex digit is 8-bit long here btw.
- kundor 4y agoYou're right, that's a mistake! It should be the 92,296,989th through 92,300,940th bits. Yes, I did only search at 4-bit aligned bytes. Doing otherwise would be more complicated, much harder for others to easily verify from the downloadable hex digit data file, and not really more likely to succeed. Looking further out is just as beneficial as looking at more offsets.