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    Solving the "Black Box" Puzzle with Math Lovers

    still i don't see how finding a collision caused by two data points (which are congruential no doubt) will help. we will still have unknown M and two different ni and nj.
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    Solving the "Black Box" Puzzle with Math Lovers

    oh grand! sorry, but i don't quite follow what "rotate the axis" means mathematically. a small example, somebody?
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    Solving the "Black Box" Puzzle with Math Lovers

    TMM, thanks for participation. Now, the only way to find modulus which i spotted is following: function F can be substituted by an integer number, which is its result. Therefore the F function is equal to simply (integer mod M) and the result will be numbers from 0 to M-1, like if M is 13, we...
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    Solving the "Black Box" Puzzle with Math Lovers

    Hello, my name is Eugene, i am glad i found a forum for people who love math. I was reading a book on mathematical puzzles recently, and there was one which i couldn't solve, mostly because i am not a very clever guy. Perhaps you will have some ideas? The area of the puzzle is non...
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