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hiya
can n e 1 tell me how 2 get on the first lvl...lol
ive done wat it says ive (decoded) it but its not workin 4 me
so if i could get som help on this that would b great thnx
It's ok, my 'case notes' from this went into many pages...
Binary is just base two, whereas we count in base ten. The binary number system only has two possible numbers (0 and 1) and so you have to use these to make up every other number. this is the easiest way to think of it:
In base ten, the headings would be ones, tens, one hundreds, one thousands, so you could 'spell' the number 2436 as 'two thousands, four hundreds, three tens and six ones', like this..
This number is 45 (or one 32, plus one 8, plus one 4, plus one 1).
What you need to do is..
work out how to turn that message into only 0s and 1s. Substitution is worth considering. Once you've done that, you need to consider what those numbers might stand for, and a bit of computer geekery might help there
Ok, I wonder if I can clear it up - I admit that was a bit confusing... hmm..
Counting in binary is just like counting in base ten - with tens, you count up in the column you're on, and when you run out of numbers you add one to the next column and do it all again, like this
..
_6
_7
_8
_9
10
11
12 etc.
With binary the colums don't go 1, 10, 100, 1000, but instead they go 1,2,4,8,16,32, doubling all the time. counting up from 0 to 7 in binary would look like this:
__0
__1
_10
_11
100
101
110
111
Basically, if there's a 1 in a column, you add the number of that column to the total. 7 in binary is 111 because you have a 1 in the 4 column, a 1 in the 2 column and a 1 in the 1 column, so you add the 4, 2 and 1 together. for 6, you only have a 1 in the 4 and 2 columns but NOT in the 1 column, so you only add 4 and 2.
That's probably confused it more, but at least you now have 1 - 7 in binary
I'm stuck on 'The house that J. built'. I've read all previous posts and tried everything I can think of. August Wilson gets me nowhere. I sure could use some help.
I think that document may have been corrected since I typed out the numbers (which would be the version you had) so you may have a bit missing. You probably have the animal name beginning with 'C' but it should have a colour before it and a word that describes the type of place it is after it (you can guess the type of place from the context of the message and what they're going to do when they get there)
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