Post by Vulpix on Dec 9, 2023 23:10:08 GMT -6
Peregrine Fu hacked his way into a Discord chat. None of the three participants seem to have noticed yet.
It turns out, Sage was sick and tired of being an admin on DRG, but no way was she just gonna let someone else take over her role. If she left, she was taking DRG down with her.
She didn't want the site's demise to be easily traced back to her, so she enlisted the help of two different people: Crazynuto and Ghostkitty.
Now, she knew that if either of them knew of her plans, they'd never go along with it. So she gave a secret number to each of them, and had them each enter their number into the Website Deactivation Device she'd secretly added to DRG under the School Regulations tab, knowing full well no one ever uses that tab.
50 minutes ago, Crazynuto and Ghostkitty put their secret numbers into the WDD.
In 10 minutes, DRG will be wiped off the internet... forever.
It's up to Peregrine to save the website.
In the Discord chat, Sage, Crazynuto, and Ghostkitty are talking.
Suddenly, Sage says, “Funny story— your launch codes were actually related. I chose a set of distinct positive integers with at least two elements, each less than 7, and told their sum to Ghostkitty, and their product to Crazynuto.”
After a moment of awkward silence, Ghostkitty says to Crazynuto, “I don’t know whether you know my number.”
Crazynuto thinks this over, then responds, “I know your number, and now I know you know my number too.”
That’s all Peregrine sees before he gets discovered and kicked from the chat.
Quickly, he goes to the School Regulations tab where the WDD has been hidden and disguised as the Shoutbox. One wrong guess, and he'll be insta-banned from the site. But if he enters the same pair of numbers that Ghostkitty and Crazynuto used, the process will be cancelled and the site will remain online.
What two numbers should Peregrine use to override the site deactivation and save DRG?