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[RT][FF] Significant Digits, Chapter Seventeen: Taking Flight
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Author: u/mrphaethon Significant Digits*
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URL: http://www.anarchyishyperbole.com/2015/08/significant-digits-chapter-seventeen.html
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Score: 5
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Created: 2015-08-15T16:43:41
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u/FeepingCreature [+4] GCV Literally The Entire Culture (2 hours later)
Man, I wonder if the digits at the start are significant.
u/None [+3] (16 hours later)
Obviously. Without them you don't know how to decipher the code. xD Also, I see what you did there. Have an upvote.
u/Escapement [+4] Ankh-Morpork City Watch (4 hours later)
I solved the puzzle over at /r/hpmor
u/mrphaethon [+2] Significant Digits (10 seconds later)
/r/HPMOR comments thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HPMOR/comments/3h3you/significant_digits_chapter_seventeen_taking_flight/
u/MugaSofer [+1] (a day later)
The call-and-response phrases were supposedly randomly generated by Mad-Eye Moody using funny little black-and-white cubes and a dictionary, but all the aurors were certain that he kept rolling the cubes until he got a sufficiently embarrassing result.
I'm pretty sure they have dice in the wizarding world. If nothing else, they predate the Statute of Secrecy by several millennia.
u/mrphaethon [+2] Significant Digits (a day later)
There are, as so often happens, parallel devices that wizards use for the same purposes, but with five sides of orange and green. The margin on dice is much less, and the manufacturing base in the magical world so limited, that the mundane objects have become unknown and disused among wizards.