Well, I solved it

Hackerdom

"It" being . It's not really so hard when you get down to it. It's all about looking for patterns... I had to write some PHP to solve it (did you really think I was going to do all that manually?), but I'm not going to post it here. More fun this way.

Was the answer 42? :P

10-digit?

Duh.. Someone aint the most awake person this morning. Seems I missed your very appropriate smiley.

Isn't there a searchable database somewhere for all .com domain name registrations? It should be possible to see what names Google have registered recently and go straight there without any tedious recourse to mathematics.

hmm, that wouldn't have worked...

Whois Server Version 1.3

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

Domain Name: 7427466391.COM
Registrar: EMARKMONITOR INC. DBA MARKMONITOR
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: NS2.ALLDOMAINS.COM
Name Server: NS1.ALLDOMAINS.COM
Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK
Updated Date: 26-apr-2004
Creation Date: 26-apr-2004
Expiration Date: 26-apr-2006

Well, that's just half the challenge. Solve the rest, too.

have you?

Well yes. That's what the post is about. ;)

The whole challenge is about finding certain sequences in e. Which is nice as finding patterns within data is something you need to think about at Google.

Furthermore, everyone can look up the answer when someone posts it on their blog (and people have) thanks to Google's fast webrobots. So when someone does submit the right answer, they don't know if the person really did find it on their own or not. But since Google is about 'being nice to the community', they're more likely to hire people who shared the result with their peers.

So, you see, this whole thing is just a big conspiracy to find people smart enough to solve the puzzle and nice enough to share it with the rest of the world.

Now where'd I put my tinfoil hat?

OK, I did it! Maybe I should apply for the job!




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