O. The grand hunt

Level 2

Hello everyone! This is the final problem of this trollathon. We decided to make a treasure hunt to hunt for the answer to this problem. This hunt is not for the faint of heart! The clues are all on texpaste , which is where you should go for all the clues. The final answer will be there as well. Good luck finding the answer! Here's the first link :

http://www.texpaste.com/n/oxuzfuhr

Note that all links are in the form :

http://www.texpaste.com/n/<code here>

P.S. The answer might NOT be an integer. Given that your answer can be written as $\frac{a}{b}$ where $a$ and $b$ are relatively prime positive integers, find the maximum value among $a$ and $b$ . Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

The answer is 1.

1 solution

Zi Song Yeoh
Nov 11, 2014

Go to the first leg.

First leg solution :

1 & 2) u, r

3) p

4) w

5 & 6) l, l

7) e

8) z

Putting this together gives the link for the second leg, which is this .

Second leg solution :

Change all the numbers to their corresponding letters with them as ASCII code. This immediately gives this .

Third leg solution :

Now, most of you will guess 54 right? NO! It is well-known that $6 \times 9 = 42$ . So, our answer is $\boxed{1}$ . (See here if you're in doubt, the second comment. )

Code for deriving this fact (credits to the link above) :

#include <stdio.h>
#define six  1+5
#define nine 8+1

int main()
{
    printf("what do you get when you multiply six by nine?\n");
    printf("%i x %i = %i\n", six, nine, six*nine);
}

written in C. Masterpiece.

I assumed, because it was the Trollathon, it would have a troll answer and I guessed 1.

Sharky Kesa - 6 years, 6 months ago

O. The grand hunt

The answer is 1.

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