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Post by Pacifica on Jul 18, 2024 4:46:04 GMT
It occurred to me that it might have something to do with the Trump assassination attempt on July 13. So I tried to see if the other dates were also followed by famous assassination attempts on the next day. What I found is two assassination attempts on the very days, not the next:
(On January 5) 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides).
(On November 8) 1939 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
A quick search didn't yield anything for May 17, and the date of the attempt on Trump is the 13th, anyway, so unless Etaoin make a mistake...
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 18, 2024 7:01:26 GMT
I then checked the profiles of other forum members in the hope of finding their birthdays. I was hoping someone would do that. But it has nothing to do with birthdays, or assassinations for that matter. I should like to replace 5 January with 29 March. There was a correct answer that would include 5 January, but it is not as satisfying as the one that includes 29 March.
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 18, 2024 7:36:11 GMT
29/3 (alt. 5/1) 17/5 12/7 8/11
I tried to find a mathematical pattern, in vain.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 18, 2024 7:39:29 GMT
My first instinct was to say there that there isn't a mathematical pattern, because there certainly isn't the way you were looking for one. But then again, there is.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 18, 2024 7:40:13 GMT
Also, I'm slightly miffed by the fact that terentiusfaber hasn't bothered to guess, because 12 July was a rabbit hole he was meant to go down.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 18, 2024 8:08:00 GMT
Incidentally, I assume that Pacifica has read 'The Purloined Letter'? I hadn't, until last night, when I looked up the origin of a phrase (not one that actually occurs in the text) while setting this question.
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Post by Pacifica on Jul 18, 2024 8:42:07 GMT
I read it, but long enough ago to have forgotten most of it including, most likely, the element that's relevant here.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 18, 2024 11:19:34 GMT
I was hoping someone would do that. I thought you could have done it on purpose. Glad to see you're as vicious as I feared.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 18, 2024 11:27:06 GMT
29/3 (alt. 5/1) 17/5 12/7 8/11 I tried to find a mathematical pattern, in vain. My first instinct was to say there that there isn't a mathematical pattern, because there certainly isn't the way you were looking for one. But then again, there is. One possible way to interpret this is that it would work better by reversing the numbers: 3/29 (1/5) 5/17 7/12 11/8 Something I didn't notice earlier is that all the months are prime numbers. 29 and 17 too, but not 12 and 8.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 18, 2024 11:28:12 GMT
all the months are prime numbers (not 1 though, but it got replaced with 3, so...)
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Jul 18, 2024 16:28:09 GMT
I hadn't noticed the primes. Allow me to add 16 August to the group, which is impressively non-prime.
Paradoxically, although numbers are relevant, the sort of path you're going down here isn't likely to lead to the answer.
Two clues:
1) You're overthinking it.
2) Replacing 5 January with 29 March increased the answer, so to speak, (nearly) fourfold.
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Post by terentiusfaber on Jul 18, 2024 17:06:58 GMT
Also, I'm slightly miffed by the fact that terentiusfaber hasn't bothered to guess, because 12 July was a rabbit hole he was meant to go down. I didn't even see it! Ok, I'm thinking now. Is it something to do with the discrepancy between great dates in the Julian and Gregorian calendars?
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Post by kizolk on Jul 18, 2024 17:08:49 GMT
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Post by kizolk on Jul 18, 2024 17:10:50 GMT
I've also tried to see if there was a connection with Christian holidays.
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Post by kizolk on Jul 18, 2024 17:12:27 GMT
1) You're overthinking it. Thank you. I shall now engage in a new overthinking session to find out in what way I was previously overthinking it.
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