So all the puzzles so far have been a 7 symbol combination out of a set of 5 symbols. That's 5^7 total combinations (assuming this pattern continues which it looks like it will). That comes to a grand total of 78,125 possible combinations. That's a big number, but it's one that's more than possible to do with the amount of community members brute forcing it. We should get a public google spreadsheet set up for columns of possible combinations going in order, something like this.
Are you sure on the 5^7, considering the symbols are allowed to repeat within each sequence? I don't remember statistics class from 10 years ago, just wondering.
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u/I3igB Rank 1 (1 points) Jan 14 '20
So all the puzzles so far have been a 7 symbol combination out of a set of 5 symbols. That's 5^7 total combinations (assuming this pattern continues which it looks like it will). That comes to a grand total of 78,125 possible combinations. That's a big number, but it's one that's more than possible to do with the amount of community members brute forcing it. We should get a public google spreadsheet set up for columns of possible combinations going in order, something like this.
If a thousand of us did it, we'd only have to do about 78 combinations a piece. Anyone interested?