My current hypothesis is that the sentence can be divided into five sections that each lead to a word, and the words are somehow related. My first thought was "Clergyman / wife / tell story / picking / muscle", and then maybe "clergyman" became "bishop" and they were all chess pieces, but that led nowhere.
I'm still not sure what the italicised "ing" could mean at all.
Their head sounds like a myth, with an eye for why
Endless, it says to meet but briefly so,
standing for the very famous MA institute.
Then comes the first name of another puzzler, all too familiar
Named who is after the prime of a time wheel with
a horse god at his feet, startin...
@n_palum If you care to update your answer to match the gratuitous changes to the puzzle, you're welcome to. If you don't want to, that's perfectly fine as well.
@Pavel , many of the most enthusiastic visitors here, like me, are in the peanut gallery when it comes to CCCC. CCCC is just one of the best features of this landscape.
I like PPCG because it doesn't matter if you're godawful, anyone can answer in a new language even if effectively the best possibile solution has been found.
Here, there's generally one correct answer, and then there's no point for anyone else to answer.
Golden ratio base is a non-integer positional numeral system that uses the golden ratio (the irrational number 1 + √5/2 ≈ 1.61803399 symbolized by the Greek letter φ) as its base. It is sometimes referred to as base-φ, golden mean base, phi-base, or, colloquially, phinary. Any non-negative real number can be represented as a base-φ numeral using only the digits 0 and 1, and avoiding the digit sequence "11" – this is called a standard form. A base-φ numeral that includes the digit sequence "11" can always be rewritten in standard form, using the algebraic properties of the base φ — most notably...
That's what got me started when Deusovi told me about it, where a "011" can leapfrog, like checkers into an equivalent "100"
Puzzling extensions of bases don't have to be bijective.
Admittedly, though, If 6 was 9, or 100 was 64, or M was N was meant to stay within the bijective lane, but I so much love when someone makes an end-around.
Just in case anyone missed it, another chance for puzzling art, a representation of base 1:
Sorry to bore with number bases. But for those who care, they mean a lot. I'll post a wiki solution soon that uses base 62.5 just to lope along with Jesse's base 1030302010.
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@Pavel , then again, anyone can make up a new language. The only one I carried to fruition was called "recurve" for making fractals. Nobody else ever used it (or heard of it, until now) but many saw the results.
Zeckendorf's theorem, named after Belgian mathematician Edouard Zeckendorf, is a theorem about the representation of integers as sums of Fibonacci numbers.
Zeckendorf's theorem states that every positive integer can be represented uniquely as the sum of one or more distinct Fibonacci numbers in such a way that the sum does not include any two consecutive Fibonacci numbers. More precisely, if N is any positive integer, there exist positive integers ci ≥ 2, with ci + 1 > ci + 1, such that
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... coming from a Fibonacci/Lucas fanatic. Learn something new every day.
Bona fides:
(after reading that article) Base Fibonacci!
... just came by to splash in the number-base wading pool with Rubio, rather than doing so in comments of a post. So delightfully delighted by what was already affoot and what developed instead! This place is too much fun. Now time for a full-moon walk ... see what happens ...
@boboquack 2 and 1 are consecutive (even though you can argue 1 is F(1), the representation must not include any pair of numbers that can be consecutive Fibonacci numbers)
^ that was a good exchange! (back from a full moon stroll full of other surprises, all safe it turned out)
But if you're still withing quacking range, @bobo, I hope you saw Jesse's rediscovery of one of your infinite solutions to New Mathematics forever. I actually believe they did it afresh.
One of our mods, Dennis, is in the business of providing online interpreters for every language ever, including those made by the PPCG community: tryitonline.net
So if you do reimplement it, you can ping him in the TIO chat room and he'll probably add it
Dancing to the tune. One of my first programs was to make a Teletype's printout look like a rising wisp of smoke. Wasted a few rolls of paper that way.
(If anyone tells you about an obscure language, you can generally find it on TIO. Once you're on a language's page, the language name is a link to the implementation)
@Sp3000 Pokémon in a question usually puts me off immediately, but your clarification that we are looking for an English word made me have a go nontheless.
Probably the most intresting esolang I've seen in the last few months is Lost. It's a 2d lang like Befunge, but the trick is that the instruction pointer starts in a random spot going in a random direction.
You can make deterministic programs, but it's hard.
Seriously (in puzzling terms), though, and hadn't come to think of it explicitly yet: A good datumbase organizes information in an accessible way and a good puzzle organizes clues alike.
(You should've been there when my sibling, a linguist, and I argued over "database" vs "datumbase.")
My favrite counterexample is "shoetree." It's not "shoestree." Trying to come up with another.
You really should hear me speak. It's beneath vulgar. People run and hide. What comes out here is some kind of hybrid between that and how I write and edit seriously.
Or "car garage." It's not "cars garage," even when more than car fits in it.
The first part, in the case of "database/datumbase" is "datum" acting as a kind of adjective.
English is such a bizarre language, anything goes as long as it's understood.
In my other native language, come to think of it, "telkkari" is borrowed from "television"
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(the handful of things I just thought of saying have already been understood by everyone here, so why not a loud music video while the speakers are simmering)
Until another, a classic scare piece, from Mussourgski and Rimsky-Korsakov, of course, and from Disney, of all places:
Right. The first letters that type out of these fingers are just something to reflect on how others might see them. Then to edit is a race against time.