Loss Leader's Super Simple Telepathy Test

[George]

100,000.5
No wait! That gets Mars probes into bother, one hundred thousand, and thirty two sixty fourths then.

 

[Nay_Sayer]

I am adding in a credibility meter; So far you have all been downgraded to [Negative Teal]

 

[LashL]

686,868

 

[LashL]

331,988

 

[Old man]

765432

 

[Foolmewunz]

290908

That's not a telepathic guess, as I'm "receiving" not a damned thing. That's a lottery play/lucky number... it's my son's birthday.

 

[LashL]

549,993

 

[John Jones]

BR 549

 

[AdMan]

Thank you for your reply. Then, I answer "I don't know".

That's a pretty strange answer from the only person here who claims any sort of telepathic ability.

Very true!

399,468 ± 16

 

[kid meatball]

943675

 

[Sideroxylon]

I wonder how many heads would asplode if someone actually beat 900,000 to 1 odds and guessed the number.

480,336

Or two people do.

 

[Brainache]

777777


647239


943672

 

[phildonnia]

I next encoded that number into a simple phrase (the top couple words on a document next to me) using an MD5 hash.

If you can find lots of different "simple phrases" to use, you can produce thousands or millions of variations, and put a different number in each one. From a large enough sample, there is a fair chance that two of these samples will have the same hash (through the "Birthday Paradox"). Thus, the hash would not necessarily be evidence of any particular number.

Maybe you could tell us the fifth word of the phrase. Had you done this trick, it is unlikely that you thought ahead of time to make the fifth word the same in all samples, and would probably be unfeasable to create a new phrase that has the hash you already provided.

 

[Tomtomkent]

654321, and the opening line of the document is "America has talent entry form"

 

[Pixel42]

I have no idea. Here are three randomly chosen six digit numbers.

374658
927648
836745

 

[Donn]

python
>>>import random
>>>random.randint(100000,999999)
314211

And:
100000
999999

 

[Akhenaten]

842022

 

[Loss Leader]

If you can find lots of different "simple phrases" to use, you can produce thousands or millions of variations, and put a different number in each one. From a large enough sample, there is a fair chance that two of these samples will have the same hash (through the "Birthday Paradox"). Thus, the hash would not necessarily be evidence of any particular number.

Maybe you could tell us the fifth word of the phrase. Had you done this trick, it is unlikely that you thought ahead of time to make the fifth word the same in all samples, and would probably be unfeasable to create a new phrase that has the hash you already provided.

Sorry. I'm not the NSA. I'm not even using a computer. I'm just shouting this to an AT&T operator.

 

[Agatha]

589642

119607

367093

I claim no telepathic ability, I just let the cat walk on the keyboard and stripped out the first 18 numbers she 'typed', separated them into three, et voila.

 

[Loss Leader]

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