Count to ten thousand! (Part 1)

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Indeed! From Yorkshire, I think. Enscombe is in Yorkshire?

Yes, they are about one hundred and ninety miles from London. a considerable journey.

Yes, upon my word, very considerable. Sixty-five miles farther than from Maple Grove to London. But what is distance, Mr. Weston, to people of large fortune?You would be amazed to hear how my brother, Mr. Suckling, sometimes flies about. You will hardly believe me but twice in one week he and Mr. Bragge went to London and back again with four horses.

Jane Austen - “Emma” - Chap. XVIII

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27+26

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972 - 962

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1234 (base 5)

Can’t subscript. :frowning:

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Yes you can

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So, gonna give me a clue or is there some sort of quest or something? :slight_smile:

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No idea what happened there. Had completely the wrong number in my head. Marked the post as deleted but there it is still. Odd.

Anyway…

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I thought you were just being cryptic and clever. 195 independent states in the world according the US Dept. of State.

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72 x 22

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Well, the pictures are apparently not coming in properly, since I’m using the mobile bbs., and now I can’t delete my post either.

Edit: Thank you, @codinghorror !

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Yeah, something about a bunch of raw image link URLs on top of each other. It worked when I edit it though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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I went to wrecksite.eu but the menus and buttons were frozen for me.

so I went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_maritime_signal_flags#Number_Flags

and got

there were number flags, too, but not with those designs. I was trying to figure out why there were 4 flags for a 3 digit number. you’re to add the values together, or blue check is a zero?

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N-Y-X-U is the call sign for a particular boat in WWII. If you’re really tricky with your Googling, you’ll find it.

If you can’t, check it out here:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/06/198.htm

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@Chione 'splain, please?

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