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Silly puzzles

So in an attempt to confuse what little mind was left of rob on IRC after a long day, I threw a bizarre puzzle his way, and to my surprise, he actually worked it out. This is how it went:

< tonyyarusso> rob: ‘k, now convert “hello world” to binary, then to a base ten number, divide by your age, subtract your street address, multiply by the number of cousins you have, convert back to text via ascii character codes, and give us the result. Oh, and you have to do it on paper - we want scans.

(A few minutes later…)

< rob> tonyyarusso, the answer to your question is: »ºÕ

I must say, the result is actually kind of pretty, in a very strange way. He didn’t have a scanner, so we’ll have to take his word on it for now, but I’d love to get uploads from anyone who can make them! Now I’d like to see any of the following:

1. Your answers to the question
2. Your ideas of what rob’s answer looks like to you - like you would do with clouds
3. Your own convoluted puzzles in similar manner for others to find fun results for

Any takers?

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