The Ultimo Puzzle

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I know which site to go and which section. I entered the name pictured, but got no results. ???

[Evita]

hey, a little clueless on 18....involves math? Just want to make sure before I go trying to make an equation....save me some trouble...

[Evita]

okay, so I do have to figure out an equation...any hints on what numbers the blue, black, white could be? I assume that

BASE 10 refers to the mathematical term....but maybe not...

[-Dozer-]

18

Base 10 refers to decimal format (red,green,blue) or (black = 0, 0, 0). Base 16 is hex format (black = 000000). just look for a hex to decimal converter online. There are a lot of them around. The Blue3 hex code is where I was stuck the longest.

The answer also has something in common with a well known base... you'll understand when you solve the equation correctly.

[-Dozer-]

19 still...

I'm still stuck on 19. How many letters are in the answer?

[Evita]

18-

I have

4276803131

is that even close?

[Evita]

yeah, I think I have the base 10 conversion done but I'm not sure if I did it totally right, lots of bit numbers and such....room for error...hmmm

[Evita]

help me with 18 and then I can help with 19

[Evita]

ello?

[Dozer]

18

The answer is only 2 digits long. Then you have to spell it out with letters in the address.

[Evita]

eh? hmmmm, I MUST be doing something wrong then....thanks...hmmm....I knew you had to spell it out...is color 000000 just 0 or is it long number too? That might be where I messed up

[Evita]

oh duh, no, I used 000000 as 0 in my first equation. What did you get for FFFFFF?

[Dozer]

18

black will be 000000 or just 0. That makes your equation much smaller. It's posted somewhere else here that blue3 is 0000cd. You can use your windows calculator to convert as well.

Open calculator, select the scientific view, then click the hex button and enter the hex color code. Then click the dec button to see the decimal conversion.

FFFFFF = 16777215

[Evita]

stupid me!!! stupid me!!! I was sure that I was doing the PEMDAS right but I wasn't. It was so simple, BAH! okay, on to 19

[Evita]

oh and thanks, I figured out the calculator hex dec thing...I just didn't realize that

all you have to do is blue-(blue3-1)

and I can erase that if it's too much of a give away