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Stevo
Stevo
12:20 AM
okay i got somewhere along the lines of yz = 216 and xz = 180 and xy = 120
from doing interestng things
 
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Daniel S
Daniel S
4:01 AM
@Stevo Good now note that xyz = 216 x = 180 y = 120 z.
Jafe
Jafe
4:40 AM
if c.c.c.c. had a song titled Beat It (and i don't see that they do), this could maybe be BEATIT+UDE* = greatness?
juicifer
juicifer
5:14 AM
@Jafe or maybe @DanielS just really liked this clue of yours
Jafe
Jafe
5:30 AM
hehe that must be it
hmm, MAGNITUDE could also mean "greatness"
 
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Stevo
Stevo
7:42 AM
@DanielS aha
Stiv
Stiv
7:54 AM
Or if that same band had a hit called SERGEANTS (or ESTRANGES) that they had publicly spoken very highly of, we could be on to something... ;-)
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
9:54 AM
1
Q: Numbers that are averages of their digits

Dmitry KamenetskyA number is called special if its decimal value^ is the average of its digits. How many special numbers are there? Good luck! ^ You are allowed to append zeroes at the end. For example 1 is a special number, while 1.0 is not.

mathematics
 
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Daniel S
Daniel S
11:04 AM
C4 hint: There have been four or five instances of the favourite since I started contributing to the chain.
oAlt
oAlt
11:50 AM
maybe this "CCCC favorite" is the most clued word so far in the CCCC series?
Jafe
Jafe
12:14 PM
daniel's first c4 clue was september 10, there's no way the same word has been clued four times in two weeks
oAlt
oAlt
Nope I meant in the whole CCCC series since 2016
Puzzling Meta
Puzzling Meta
1:04 PM
0
Q: Can I ask about tools for collaborating with others?

HammeriteMy Dad and I sometimes collaborate on solving crosswords. This is a bit difficult when we're not in the same place, unless one of us goes to the trouble of printing a copy. I'd like to ask about tools that we could use to make it easier to collaborate on solving crosswords. Is that on topic on th...

discussion on-topic
 
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msh210
msh210
5:27 PM
The hint makes it sound like the "favourite" is a type of wordplay.
 
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msh210
msh210
7:30 PM
@DanielS &lit ude*
Stiv
Stiv
7:41 PM
I'm missing something - where's the 'amp' from?
Oh, ampersand - I see
msh210
msh210
List of XML and HTML character entity references
In SGML, HTML and XML documents, the logical constructs known as character data and attribute values consist of sequences of characters, in which each character can manifest directly (representing itself), or can be represented by a series of characters called a character reference, of which there are two types: a numeric character reference and a character entity reference. This article lists the character entity references that are valid in HTML and XML documents. A character entity reference refers to the content of a named entity. An entity declaration is created in XML, SGML and HTML documents...
Stiv
Stiv
Indeed. Took me a while to process what I was seeing, that's all... Wasn't expecting character references in a CCCC wordplay explanation - thought you'd mashed the keyboard a little bit! :)
Daniel S
Daniel S
8:08 PM
@msh210 Exactly so; correct!
msh210
msh210
CCCC: Guinness authority, drunk, burps "Hii…" (5,3)
Daniel S
Daniel S
irsish pub*
Oops IRISH PUB* (appropriately, this was typed at an airport bar)
msh210
msh210
hahaha yes that's right
Daniel S
Daniel S
CCCC: An ocean ebbs; the soil crumbles; go back to the end of elementary number theory. (15)
msh210
msh210
9:08 PM
an aes< the siol* og< _y (theory of one who numbs)
nice clue
Daniel S
Daniel S
Correct! (and just before I board the plane too)
msh210
msh210
Have a safe trip!
CCCC: Mint a coin for a large island (3,6)
 
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Jafe
Jafe
10:32 PM
new + guinea
msh210
msh210
@Jafe yes indeed
Jafe
Jafe
10:54 PM
CCCC: People also implicated write software to protect an army, perhaps (12)
msh210
msh210
@Jafe code fend ants
Jafe
Jafe
that's right
msh210
msh210
11:28 PM
CCCC: Makes, perhaps, raisins and various things (8)

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