I'd love for this to be true. I'm also fascinated by how you'd work out those two numbers out, having decided that you wanted to produce a number with an ironic meaning in base 36. How do the maths work - can you do this with any arbitrary sequence of words?
#1: It's true. Click the image and you'll see the actual site, with the answer displayed in "block form" - "0. 22 10 20 14" with each of those two-digit numbers representing a single Base-36 digit. Click "hide block form" and you'll see the letters instead.
#2: You work it out backwards, and yes you can make any arbitrary sentence since valid base36 "digits" are 0-9 and a-z. So you start with your base36 number (of the form 0.makeitstop where the underline means "repeating" since I don't know how to do a top line in html), then you convert it to decimal, then you convert that decimal to a fraction.
Then, you take your fraction and throw it into Wolfram Alpha and out pops your string - "makeitstop" in this case, or "helpmeiamtrappedinthisfraction" or whatever.
(I'm not sure the exact magic W-A spells to get the reverse process to work perfectly, but I can see *how* to do it even if I can't find the right commands)
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Date: 2015-05-27 06:44 pm (UTC)#2: You work it out backwards, and yes you can make any arbitrary sentence since valid base36 "digits" are 0-9 and a-z. So you start with your base36 number (of the form 0.makeitstop where the underline means "repeating" since I don't know how to do a top line in html), then you convert it to decimal, then you convert that decimal to a fraction.
Then, you take your fraction and throw it into Wolfram Alpha and out pops your string - "makeitstop" in this case, or "helpmeiamtrappedinthisfraction" or whatever.
(I'm not sure the exact magic W-A spells to get the reverse process to work perfectly, but I can see *how* to do it even if I can't find the right commands)
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