It's probably a very aspirated H pronunciation in whole and a similar pronunciation with cholera. (It's just a guess, but as a non-native English speaker I often get homophones terribly wrong because I map to sounds of my language.)
my initial thought for you doing the 10.! was "guys, I know I'm using a number and an explanation point, but please don't take the factorial, it's a waste of your time"
Q1 (rhetorical). What distinguishes these three things?
A downvote
A vote to close
A vote to remain closed
I’m beginning to wonder if we really know,
and am beginning to suspect that we sometimes mistakenly
use the ability to vote for closure
as an amped up ability to downvote
and to usurp th...
A short cipher that should be easy to decrypt: "KBSCPLKNABSVKLDPJHZDVIHIWPHSOPZWPUQQGJKLNFGQAJSWBKVXAMZQBLLHNHWWNORYDVZOAQTGWULOHDVHMYOWXHJRHTJALRTSCPTPOUGCTOHOAFJQHCTGGYQCCUVPSMDFDCJEMHISUVNZCESAULDUXODGASAIQQVGWLXFQSGEECPAZQKIRVYYRUEDOBXVRHHFXBEZQRVLHTWLZQTVKCLPWDIHSEGLJZ"
@TheBitByte The number of chars starts with 4-2. I'm not saying anything more :) I'll put this cipher as my chat user description now. Really wondering why it hasn't been solved by now.
@Will It's up to you :P I'll say that much: It's not a complete hoax, it is a ciphertext that actually corresponds to the plain-text I intended with a certain key... But finding that key is "a little bit" hard, I would say.
I wouldn't do it unless you want a -58 score question :P.
Let me replace "a little bit hard" with "inappropriate for a Puzzling website".
@Will "Inappropriate" like in "solver woulde have to make an unreasonable amount of effort for a site that revolves around Puzzling. The key cannot be determined by just analyzing the puzzle itself". Sorry, I just realized now how ambiguous my last statement was.
@Will If my latest puzzle doesn't get solved within 5 days I might put a 500 bounty on it :P
@MariaDeleva It helps in motivation. Which, frankly, is all that's needed at this point. I'm pretty sure I know at least the general direction of the solution method; I'm just too lazy to actually do it :-P
I remember the days when I had 300 rep on SFF and 100 rep on a few other sites, and thought it was far too ambitious to even try to get a few hundred more anywhere.
@Emrakul Why was this puzzle deleted? (I'm guessing plagiarism, but without an explanatory comment, it could be anything up to and including a mistake!)
Find a ten-digit number with the number of zeros in it as the most significant (leftmost) digit, the number of ones as the second most significant digit etc.
@Deusovi Understood. Might be a good idea to drop a comment though, so that others who come across that question will know why it was deleted.
> Whenever possible, try to leave frequent comments on posts where you've taken (or considered taking) a moderator action, explaining the reasoning. This is important so that community members can learn the norms of the community and the moderation policies.
@Deusovi Ah, there's one multi-digit solution and one single-digit solution. I read the answer too quickly and thought that the solution given at the very end was the only one.
I wanted to upload a PDF once, but there was no way to do it. I needed (in fact, still need) to take a bunch of screenshots of the PDF and upload them individually.
Q1 (rhetorical). What distinguishes these three things?
A downvote
A vote to close
A vote to remain closed
I’m beginning to wonder if we really know,
and am beginning to suspect that we sometimes mistakenly
use the ability to vote for closure
as an amped up ability to downvote
and to usurp th...
Find a ten-digit number with the number of zeros in it as the most significant (leftmost) digit, the number of ones as the second most significant digit etc.
