Web-Hopper Riddle

[2039u0fc9j]

follow the link praisingfool that i provided for IE users

[praisingfool]

Oh I did...saw a little black square. Not too helpful. However, someone else posted the riddle...and I thought I solved it, but it didn't work.

[HELL YEAH]

Yeah, I couldn't view the source on that page.

[mandajean2001]

the question on the forum that i'm gettin is




In the book, "_____" is defined as:
"The pretense that all of the individual items
in a given pseudocategory are exactly equal."


am i in the wrong place?

[praisingfool]

No, that's right Manda. I think the rest of us are on the one after that. Just do a google search for that definition.

[mandajean2001]

gotcha

[praisingfool]

Ok. Let's prove my mathmatical stupidity. The product of two numbers is when you multiply them right? So we should be multiplying 2 3-digit prime numbers together to get a 5 digit number where all 5 digits are unique.

Or am I off?

[mandajean2001]

sorry just noticed you were from denver....i'm actually in greeley

[praisingfool]

Cool. Not too too far away.

[HELL YEAH]

Yes that's right I think. The number we want is the largest possible 5 digit number with each digit a different number

[Unregistered769]

how would we go about answering this question?

[praisingfool]

I just realized though...the 2 3 digit numbers are actually 2 seperate numbers...so it's not like multiplying 311 x 311. Now..the largest possible 5 digit number with unique numbers would have to 98765, wouldn't it?

[Unregistered769]

but if u dont figure out how to narrow it down then u'll be puttin a bunch of #s in until u get the right one

[praisingfool]

i know...that's where i'm stuck! i pulled up a list of prime numbers...and there are a ton of possibilities

[20349823049]

just built a program...it's running right now...soon ill have the answer