Ascii between 925559 && 927901

snowman81 · 01-20-2008, 02:47 PM

Can anyone think of a word between the ascii decimal values of 92559 and 927901?

jschiwal · 01-20-2008, 02:56 PM

What do you mean by a word. If you mean 2 bytes, than those numbers are outside the range that 16 bits can represent.

snowman81 · 01-21-2008, 01:38 PM

It's like a puzzle. Like for instance, the decimal equivalent of "a" is 97, like in the Ascii table. But the the total of all the letters in the word added up have to be between those numbers.

jlliagre · 01-21-2008, 02:19 PM

Hmm, that would be a word with around 10000 letters ...

Alien_Hominid · 01-21-2008, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowman81

Can anyone think of a word between the ascii decimal values of 92559 and 927901?

You're doing smth wrong.

pixellany · 01-21-2008, 03:20 PM

OK.... The sum of the ascii values for "abc" would be 303. Take 100 letters with an average value of 110 (n), and you get 11,000. Getting to 927,000 will take one heck of a word......

Please disambiguate what you mean by

Quote:

all the letters in the word added up

Also, the first number in the title is not the same as in the text.

jschiwal · 01-21-2008, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowman81

It's like a puzzle. Like for instance, the decimal equivalent of "a" is 97, like in the Ascii table. But the the total of all the letters in the word added up have to be between those numbers.

Do you mean concatenated rather than added up.

snowman81 · 01-21-2008, 04:02 PM

Hmm, maybe, here is a program I got from someone else. It checks to see if a word meets those standards.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
char string[100];
int ascii_code;
int i;
int sum=0;
printf("Give string: ");
scanf("%s",&string);
for (i=0; i<strlen(string); i++)
{
sum+=(int)string[i] + (sum*i);
}

if (sum>925559 && sum<927901)
printf("VALID ID! - ");
else
printf("NOT VALID ID! - ");

printf("%d\n",sum);

return 0;

}

rkelsen · 01-21-2008, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by snowman81

It's like a puzzle.

Do I detect the subtle whiff of a HOMEWORK question?

snowman81 · 01-21-2008, 05:02 PM

No, actually it's for a hacker challenge type website.

jlliagre · 01-21-2008, 05:04 PM

So do I !
I have found 277 of these words, but I'm sure snowman81"s teacher expects better than brute force ...

snowman81 · 01-21-2008, 05:07 PM

It's for the website www.hackthissite.org. Realistic mission 14.

So... anyway I can get one of those words?

jlliagre · 01-21-2008, 05:46 PM

I like "niagara" (a cool CPU codename), otherwise "pancake" or "hotdogs" pass the test.

snowman81 · 01-21-2008, 05:51 PM

Huh, maybe I just have bad luck picking words. Did you just choose random words?

jlliagre · 01-22-2008, 02:43 AM

As I wrote, I used brute force. That means instead of trying to find a solution using some sort of logical approach, I slightly modified the C code for it to try every word from an English dictionary.

I quickly found 277 out of 109582 words were passing the test.