Too geeky for me

12/1/2006 in Geek Stuff, Life by Elliot Lee | 4 comments

ThinkGeek sells a shirt called Dead Hex People. It has a riddle on it which goes like this:

How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?

Any idea? You have my respect if you got it from just that…

The answer is given as: 57006

OK, I still didn’t get it. I had to look it up. Now I know. It makes sense, but it’s a little bit of a stretch. If you want to know how the riddle works, leave a comment.

  2. Henry Yuen’s avatar

    Henry Yuen on 12/1/2006 at 11:53 pm

    is it DEAD (in hex) + 1?

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  3. Elliot Lee’s avatar

    Elliot Lee on 12/1/2006 at 11:57 pm

    Henry, yes. If you got that on your own, you *must* be my roommate next year. If not, you’re awesome anyway.

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  4. Henry Yuen’s avatar

    Henry Yuen on 12/2/2006 at 9:27 am

    Haha well I’m still not sure how DEAD + 1 = 57006. What happened to all the letters? I guess I have to learn how hex exactly works first :-P

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