Summoning

I find it extremely annoying when I have to mention someone in a new place and can’t find their mention ids easily, so here’s a note for that

Name	Mention Id
Anonymous1 Assassin	11057086
Agent T	10306930
Atin Gupta	5684084
Aryan Sanghi	2676824
Brilliant Mathematics	1217290
Calvin Lin	11
Chew-Seong Cheong	533040
Chris Lewis	6060503
David Hairston	4517705
David Vreken	5001876
Fletcher Mattox	6197503
Frisk Dreemurr	10427613
Hamana Hamana	5024774
Jason Gomez	4821179
Jeff Giff	10101485
Joe Byrne	7448081
Lu Ca	5483815
Mark Hennings	106901
NSCS 747	10192785
Num IC	10719104
Paul Romero	4178106
Percy Jackson	10420647
Pi Han Goh	54224
Sarah Alam	11184426
Saya Suka	3896288
Steven Chase	1247521
Siddharth Chakravarty	8748521
Siddhesh Umarjee	10845015
Sundar R	15861
Vinayak Srivastava	9000462
Zakir Husain	10109616

MATHATHON

6375317	Vishwajeet Prasad
11341903	Avner Lim
9366481	Aditya Mittal
11313106	Newton KAYODE
11202312	Aryan Raj
11607478	Devbrat Dandotiya
10956412	Oskar Dobroczek
11714079	Omek K
8577225	Praveen B
9601463	Morris Pearl
10774643	Balthazar Martin
9239246	Guillaume MARTIN
6323668	Kevin Long

Just tell whosever id you want to add and I will add it

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Comments

@Me i was not aware that it is possible to have just a single name.
oh, i saw it's yours Jason, so i propose to just write your name there.

num IC - 3 months, 1 week ago

Jason Gomez - 3 months, 1 week ago

@Perseus Jackson Did you know this? (No links, only mention)

I do now @Jason Grace

A Former Brilliant Member - 3 months, 1 week ago

I have been thinking about changing my name to something else (Jason Grace was my first thought, but i recently saw that he already exists in some old daily challenge), do you have any thoughts on this (If positive, you can recommend names to me, as I have no clue what I’ll change it to)

@Jason Gomez – ;-) how about 'Percy Jacksons Dad' ?
but tbh: i like to adress you as Jason Gomez

@Num Ic – You can still address me the same, just wanted to change my name on brilliant (you have given me a good idea)

@Jason Gomez – hm, i thought about changing mine to Numic Numic, but i already changed this year.

@Num Ic – no...that's a terrible idea...

@A Former Brilliant Member – I agree

@Jason Gomez – You should tell people who you have conversations with often so they know where to find you and/or who you are. Maybe choose something related to a well-known book you’ve read or a famous TV show/movie.

Sarah Alam - 3 months, 1 week ago

@Sarah Alam – Nah that’s not a problem, I will keep my profile pic the same

@Jason Gomez – That will be easier for people to recognise you.

@Jason Gomez – Sparky? Thunder boy? Zeusy's son?

If this note gets enough used by many others, I will put the names in ascending order

Thnx for the note bro, its really helpful :)

Why is the Brilliant Mathematics one a link? And why does it have the options of ‘call number’, ‘FaceTime video’, ‘send message’ and some others? Is that a mentioning id or a phone number?

its good to have this way to contact the staff bcs i know no other way.
since many members have 'brilliant' in their names, just typing '@' and then brilliant does not show them in the list with proposals.

what did u do to get that 'call number' stuff?

If you click on a link it directs you to a website, right? When I clicked it, it showed options next to it (like if you double click and icon) which read: FaceTime audio FaceTime send message Skype add to contacts copy phone number

I’m on a tablet device. Is anybody else having this problem?

@Sarah Alam – hm, i'm on a laptop. i don't get such options. i assume your device assumes that it was a phone number and has options to auto-associate with phone numbers.

@Num Ic – Why aren’t the other mentioning ids recognised as phone numbers then?

@Sarah Alam – i assume it depends on the 'phone-number-detection' on your device.
you can just test if similar numbers like: 1217291 or 1217390 cause similar options as 1217290 .

@Num Ic – All three of those are links! Well, I guess any number similar to that is now a link. I’ll stop calling the numbers.

@Sarah Alam – yeah good idea. i was not aware that you imediately call them. i posted them, so you could just check what options you get displayed.

@Num Ic – I called the first one, so I assume that the rest of them are phone numbers to nobody.

@Sarah Alam – ok. i was afraid that my post just scared you more.

@Num Ic – I am worried very easily, but not scared that much. On the other hand, can I recommend this video, I found it very inspiring? Kind of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqq1roF4C8s

I called the number. It didn’t work. Thank goodness.

lol, i tried the brilliant id in a search engine and found a fountain pen ;-)

It's an actual phone number somewhere in the world but it's not Brilliant Mathematics number, that's why it turned blue

Oh my god. I called the number! Some random person has a missed call number. Which is my phone number! This is terrible!

@Sarah Alam – don't worry. i'm myself are quite paranoid and checked what can be done if stranges have my number. they can call to anoy or check the web to see if it was posted somewhere. so no big reason to worry.

@Sarah Alam – Don’t worry, imagine the number of wrong number calls you get and imagine what you can do with their numbers, nothing at all, no worries at all

@Jason Gomez – I have one missed call number and it was my mum. Nobody has ever ‘wrong number’ called me

@Jason Gomez – Well that’s amusing, I get wrong number calls from all over the world

@Jason Gomez – Lucky...

@Jason Gomez – Unlucky, I don’t attend most of them

@Jason Gomez – What do you mean ‘attend a phone number’?

@Percy Jackson You made a solution for today’s challenge right, why did you take it down?

I didn't like my solution. Something about it seemed too...dull I guess you could say. It was repetitive.

Hmm I would do the same

@Pi Han Goh I would like to validate my theory on the ascending order of mention ids, is there any chance you know someone whose id I can obtain, who was on this website before you?

I did try finding the end of your bottomless feed to find members older than you, I had just gone through the past 3 years and lost hope on finding the end

Naturally, most of the staff came before me. I don't purposely remember which account/profile came before me though...

You can check my solutions tab starting from the bottom to find some "ancient" users like me.

On the other hand, I don't know how you found my ID number or any ID number...

Pi Han Goh - 3 months, 1 week ago

@Pi Han Goh – If I mention you then type your name your mention id pops up

@Pi Han Goh mention[54224:Pi Han Goh]

@Jason Gomez – Ah got it. Thank you.

@Jason Gomez – I normally do it from the preview of the explanation of a problem posted by the user I require the mention id (or if I require to mention them, then directly from there)

@Pi Han Goh – Found that Calvin Lin’s mention id is 11 confirming my belief

@Jason Gomez – Do you know who ‘1’ is? On a different note, why is ‘Brilliant Mathematics’ not an early number? Is is unofficial or something?

@Sarah Alam – No, probably just added later on, not all staff will be the top numbers.

@A Former Brilliant Member – I thought that since it was Brilliant Mathematics, it was the person/people who made this, or are those people using their own names?

@Sarah Alam – Brilliant.org was founded by Sue Khim, Brilliant Mathematics and Brilliant Physics are just moderators kinda people. Moderators can join pretty late too.

@Sarah Alam – Has to be a staff, but it will only be known by staff, BM can shine some light on this, but it isn’t necessary that’s why I didn’t call him(I took a lot of time to consider calling Pi Han Goh to such a useless question)

@Jason Gomez – Okay, that makes sense. I usually ask google the weird questions, because google won’t judge my strange questions. Google can’t judge my questions. (As an example I randomly wanted to know what the lifespan of a shark was, I’m not sure why). Too bad google probably can’t answer this.

@Sarah Alam – It might be Sue Khim, the founder of brilliant but I'm not sure. Searching up a shark's lifetime is not that weird. That is, if you're me and search whether pigeons have feelings...

@A Former Brilliant Member – Well I understand shark, pigeons??? having feelings???????.. I feel a disturbance

@Jason Gomez – Hey, if humans can have feelings why can't pigeons? That is species discrimination! #PigeonRights

$\text{lol}$

@A Former Brilliant Member – is right. People are concerned about racism, but none of them care that they are being discriminatory towards pigeons. Pigeons have feelings too. Sort of.

@Sarah Alam – lol

@Jason Gomez – A fish fighting for a bird, contradictory

@Jason Gomez – I am a swordfish then...lol

@Sarah Alam – so it seems 1 is Sam Solomon

@Num Ic – Oh so you mentioned him lol

@Num Ic – How did you find that???

@A Former Brilliant Member – i just did @ mention [1:some text]
without blanks
edit: i got no result for 2 and 3. i don't intend to continue that, i was just curious

@Pi Han Goh – I would prefer calling you guys $\pmb{experienced}$

This is so confusing!!!

Bithiah Koshy - 3 months, 1 week ago

@mention[<mention_id>:<name_of_person_mentioned>]

Copy paste this using my mention id 4821179 and name as Jason Gomez

@mention[<4821179>:<Jason Gomez>]

@Bithiah Koshy – Remove the < and > Bitky

@A Former Brilliant Member – Aaaaah okay Percy Person!! @mention[4821179>:<Jason Gomez]

@Bithiah Koshy – @Jason Gomez

@Bithiah Koshy – @Percy Person [10420647:Percy Jackson]

@Bithiah Koshy – @Percy Person [10420647>:<Percy Jackson]

@Bithiah Koshy – @Percy Jackson

@Bithiah Koshy – @Percy Person [10420647:Percy Person]

@Bithiah Koshy – @Percy Person [10420647:Percy fJackson]

@Bithiah Koshy – @Percy Person

@Bithiah Koshy – YAYAYAYA got it!!

@Bithiah Koshy – Nice @Bithiah Koshy

@Wow[<4821179>:<Jason Gomez>]

@Bithiah Koshy – @JasonGomez[<4821179>:<Jason Gomez>]

@Bithiah Koshy – So connnnnnfusssedddddddddd.

@Bithiah Koshy – Lul

SRIJAN Singh - 4 weeks ago

@Jason Gomez - Just putting out the mention ID's of Mathathon participants here, in the event that we need to @mention them. I will delete this after the contest ends :)

[6375317:Vishwajeet Prasad]
[11341903:Avner Lim]
[9366481:Aditya Mittal]
[10192785:NSCS 747]
[11313106:Newton KAYODE]
[10109616:Zakir Husain]
[5684084:Atin Gupta]
[11202312:Aryan Raj]
[15861:Sundar R]
[10845015:Siddhesh Umarjee]
[11607478:Devbrat Dandotiya]
[10306930:Tanya Adlakha]
[10956412:Oskar Dobroczek]
[11714079:Omek K]
[8577225:Praveen B]
[9601463:Morris Pearl]
[5024774:Hamana Hamana]
[10774643:Balthazar Martin]
[9239246:Guillaume MARTIN]
[6323668:Kevin Long]

A Former Brilliant Member - 3 months ago

Ok I’ll add them in a separate column as well

Jason Gomez - 3 months ago

i will not have enough time to create solutions for the problems,
so my place is free for someone else.

num IC - 3 months ago

@Num Ic – Okay

Wow~

Bithiah Koshy - 3 months ago

wdymn???

at the pi game

@Bithiah Koshy – oh lol

Yessssss i got 24!!!! MY WORLD RECORDDDDD!!

My head is dizzy!

Thanks @Jason Gomez :)!

Agent T - 4 weeks ago

Np at all

Jason Gomez - 4 weeks ago

I deduce from this that the mention ids have been given in ascending order, people who joined earlier have smaller id numbers and Pi Han Goh was one of the first people on this website

Jason Gomez - 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Type in 22/7 in google. You'll get a PI game in the calculator. It checks your memory of pi digits. My highscore is 23 :)

My high score is 9 Lmao!!! I'll try again later. Nice game!

@Bithiah Koshy – Aaah increased to 12. I'll try to get you Percy!!!

@Bithiah Koshy – You can't. I did it again, now its 28 :)

@A Former Brilliant Member – WTH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Bithiah Koshy – AAaAAAAAaaAAAAaaHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh(Echo)

@Bithiah Koshy – It very easy actually. I already have the firs 20 digits memorized, I just attempted it 5-6 times to get 8 more correct.

@A Former Brilliant Member – MMMHMMMMMMM. Veeeeerrryy Easy!!!

@Bithiah Koshy – Yea it is 18 now!!

@Bithiah Koshy – Just got to 31...this is hard now...

@A Former Brilliant Member – My technique is to memorise four digits in a bar, 3.141 5926 5358 9793 2384 I misclicked for 20

@Jason Gomez – Aah nice. Lemme try that.

@Jason Gomez – I just say the digits continuously and get used to the tune of when i say it.

@A Former Brilliant Member – I am pretty sure I can memorise upto 50 digits in my method (and my memory is really bad)

@Jason Gomez – It is actually easy if you try. People with good memory can do upto a 100 no sweat.

@A Former Brilliant Member – people with good memory

I don’t come in that category

people with bad memory

am I in this category?

@Jason Gomez – Moderate memory I guess?

@A Former Brilliant Member – Bad memory, so bad I might forget am of that category..

@A Former Brilliant Member – Nike Cookie based person. Eat more cookies, you brain will become smarter and a whole lot bigger! No offense!

@Bithiah Koshy – Meant to be Nice not Nike!

@Jason Gomez – You know that thing about the phone number? The last 16 numbers of pi which you wrote is now a phone number.

Sarah Alam - 3 months ago

@Sarah Alam – I know, please don’t go calling some random person who happens to have is phone number coinciding with the beginning digits of π

@Jason Gomez – Not the first digits of pi, the last ones which you typed.

I got 19 in first attempt

@Jason Gomez – Nice! Clap Clap Clap Clap!

@Bithiah Koshy – My eye is breaking after this game. I got 18. Not bad . I have never memorized Pi before. Guess I have EYE MEMORY. Lmao

@Bithiah Koshy – I am a picture based person, how about you @Percy Jackson

@Bithiah Koshy – Geez I am tired, will try tmr!

@Bithiah Koshy – Cookies based person :)

@A Former Brilliant Member – Huh so you eat cookies to learn???

@Bithiah Koshy – Yes. My mom tells me I get a cookie if I learn something, so I learn it for the cookie :)

@A Former Brilliant Member – Wow just wow then I can say I eat noodles to learn, lmao

@Bithiah Koshy – Good, noodles are cool too. Cookies are better tho...

@A Former Brilliant Member – Both are good, how about that? But based on our results, I think cookies are doing better!

@Bithiah Koshy – Ofc they are. Cookies rule!!!

@A Former Brilliant Member – What about blue cookies 🔵🔘🧿 (this is as close as I can get to a blue cookie)

@Jason Gomez – You don't have to specify blue cookies. All good cookies are blue :)

Found a glitch in the game, did you too?

@Jason Gomez – Using this I don’t need to do the tutorial for each digit being added, but I can’t see the tutorial either if I want to know the next digit

@Jason Gomez – How??????

@Jason Gomez – After typing for 3.14 when it shows 3.14 1 type 3 then 926 5358 9793 2384 6264 3383 2

@Jason Gomez – Exactly at 1 or little before 1

@Jason Gomez – It’s now a longer phone number.

@Sarah Alam – Well we will have a lot of phone numbers by the time I reach 1000

@Jason Gomez – One phone number. a long one.

@Sarah Alam – You and your phone numbers...

@Jason Gomez – I raised it to 28 digits for the 29 th one I mistakenly double clicked 3.. smh

@Jason Gomez – Doesn't work for me...

@A Former Brilliant Member – Sad

@Jason Gomez – Yea same. I gives tell me I made a mistake.

nice i'm one below i just got 22

@Num Ic – I am 35 now :)

funny! i saw this only now :) my highscore is 33:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795.

Jeff Giff - 1 month, 1 week ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$