Alicornutopia

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 9:50 pm**

* Remembers that this updated and comes back to it *

Thoughts

So apparently prepending b shifts the pattern of as ahead by one, as though it were equivalent to another a, prepending 0 shifts it ahead 2, and prepending w shifts it ahead 3. I don’t know why those letters have those values.

In the wider array of context of order not seeming to matter, this implies that concatenation is some sort of addition, not multiplication. I formed that hypothesis fairly early on but it didn’t work in any way I could discern so I abandoned it. With these values pre-chosen I’m going to try some experiments and see what happens. I expect the first five to all be yesses, and the last five to all be nos.

aig (from big)
52560aa (from 525600)
a0hiskey (from whiskey)
bir (from air)
ww (from waaa)

aaar (from wr)
j0ckdws (from jackdaws)
jaackdaaas (from jackdaws)
j00ckdas (from jackdaws)
ab123456789 (from 0123456789)

Edit: it’s always possible that my thoughts are correct but I made a mistake choosing these patterns, or that they are incorrect and I made such a mistake; if another player thinks that by these rules something I said should be classified other than how I put it please point that out. I put an existing koan or nonkoan which I believe will have the same classification next to each of my proposals, from which that proposal was derived using my thoughts above.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:05 pm**

ww is no. The others are as you predicted.

Koans

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:10 pm**

("waaa" doesn't seem to have ever been submitted as a guess.) edit: durr i am a stupid >_>

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:20 pm**

You gave it as part of the hint, and I miscounted when I used it. I thought it was a yes but it is really a no.

Posted: **Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:45 pm**

I still dom’t see why the would be so close to a but not quite the same. Maybe capitalization really does matter or something?

the
a²⁴

Also, my best guess for the a pattern is this. It does not fit the²⁴, but The¹ has a different answer than a¹ and the known values for powers of the and a are otherwise identical.

Edit: There are multiple powers of the which my guess doesn’t fit, but that was the only one I remembered for some reason.

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:49 am**

There appears to be something that excludes all one character strings. But just to make sure:

o
p
q
s
t
u
v
w
x
y

Ran out of guesses, can I please have z too?

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:54 am**

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:06 am**

<3 thank

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 7:44 am**

w is yes; the others are no.

Koans

Posted: **Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:22 am**

So in very rare cases, case actually matters.

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