Kind of an interesting news story that, in the end, leads to a library-related conclusion. James Randi, the well-known challenger of psychics, has an item placed in a locker, and has offered a million dollars to the person who can state what the item is.
To establish what is in the locker, he posted a code in his newsletter that would identify it:
0679
4388
66/27
5 -14
I didn’t see anything in the code that gave me any clues, but once I read the solution, I realized that many of us who work in libraries should be able to figure this out. If you feel like it, look it over for a while before clicking any of the following links.
Matt Blaze’s blog entry (the person who figured it out, using non-psychic ability).
The first step of the solution; here, as well.
(update: I showed this to Mary Ann, the Acquisitions Librarian at MPOW, and she identified the code in less than two minutes. Good work!)
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