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Not Demonstone's irrational conundrum

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8 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Demonstone has been doing the heavy lifting producing entertaining puzzles. Here's one I prepared earlier.

What links all these Melbourne players?

FB 3. Christian Salem 14 Lynden Dunn 15 Paul Hopgood

HB 9  Alan Johnson 26 Glenn McLean 5 Neil Crompton

C 35 Luke Tapscott 8 Glenn Elliott 9 Brian Dixon

HF 7 Jamie Bennell 9 David Neitz 32 Barry Vagg

FF 38 Jeremy Howe 4 Norm Smith 6 Luke Jackson

R 26 John Meesen 43 Guy Rigoni 3 Henry Coles

IC 8 Tassie Johnson 32 Cameron Bruce 7 Brian Wilson 9 Jack Trengove

Medisub 50 Ben Brown

Emerg 28 Ted Cordner 8 Graeme Yeats 41 Peter Rohde

they are all anti-vaxxers??

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    1 hour ago, In Harmes Way said:

    Just worked it out. Thanks to Mazer for the clues. 

    You erased “easy as…” from your original post. 🤔

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    3 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    the clue in the subject heading.

    “Not Demonstone’s irrational  conundrum.”

    There’s a clue in that?

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    1 hour ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Do you prefer cryptic crosswords or sudoku? If you're not a numbers person you might never get it.

    So, are we looking at a number pattern? Is addition/subtraction involved? Does the full stop after Christian Salem’s guernsey number mean anything?

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    16 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    All at sea and still combing through the wreckage seeking the answer, WCW?

    aTp0qDb.jpg

    Is that a clue?

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    14 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Do you prefer cryptic crosswords or sudoku? If you're not a numbers person you might never get it.

    Speaking of which, it is reported in today's The Age that the inventor of the Sudoku puzle has just passed away. (That's not a clue, or the beginning of a joke, but a fact.)

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    Thanks to everyone who played along. As far as I can tell, the conundrum was solved by Mazer Rackham, Demonstone, Dee Zephyr, Jjrogan and In Harmes Way. Thanks also for those that played along and provided clues along the way.

    In fact, before I give the answer, here are all the clues (if I've missed any, please let me know):

    • it's an "irrational" number
    • 16 (Travis Johnstone) can replace 15 in the back pocket due to rounding
    • "pie-eyed"
    • Eureka (for two reasons - because that was allegedly said by the mathematician Archimedes and because he was Greek)
    • 2 people in a 5 km radius (specifically the 2 and the word radius)
    • the only punctuation after 3 is a decimal point
    • the number does, indeed, go on forever (although we only know the first 68 trillion digits - it was this story that gave me the idea, by the way)
    • it is as "easy as [insert answer here]"
    • 4 and 20 "pies"
    • its all Greek to me
    • the picture from Life of Pi

    So, to state what I now hope is obvious, the answer is that all the numbers are the first 38 digits of Pi (ie, 3.14159 etc)

     

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    42 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Thanks to everyone who played along. As far as I can tell, the conundrum was solved by Mazer Rackham, Demonstone, Dee Zephyr, Jjrogan and In Harmes Way. Thanks also for those that played along and provided clues along the way.

    In fact, before I give the answer, here are all the clues (if I've missed any, please let me know):

    • it's an "irrational" number
    • 16 (Travis Johnstone) can replace 15 in the back pocket due to rounding
    • "pie-eyed"
    • Eureka (for two reasons - because that was allegedly said by the mathematician Archimedes and because he was Greek)
    • 2 people in a 5 km radius (specifically the 2 and the word radius)
    • the only punctuation after 3 is a decimal point
    • the number does, indeed, go on forever (although we only know the first 68 trillion digits - it was this story that gave me the idea, by the way)
    • it is as "easy as [insert answer here]"
    • 4 and 20 "pies"
    • its all Greek to me
    • the picture from Life of Pi

    So, to state what I now hope is obvious, the answer is that all the numbers are the first 38 digits of Pi (ie, 3.14159 etc)

     

    Genius!

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    Nice work LDVC. I have to say I was pretty grumpy with you for a while yesterday!

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    2 hours ago, In Harmes Way said:

    Nice work LDVC. I have to say I was pretty grumpy with you for a while yesterday!

    I still am. 😠 
    JK. I’m grumpy with myself for not getting it. I can’t believe I was saying to myself “hmmm, 3.14 15… what could this mean?” 

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    I prefer pasties.

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