Question 1

Question 1



The Nilgiri Tahr



The Nilgiri Tahr is a mountain goat that lives in the Nilgiri hills on the border between Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The tahr lives along steep rock cliffs where grass does not grow easily. The tahr is a very good climber and can balance itself even on the steepest of cliffs…

Xaviers

No, we didn’t win anything because for winning, there’s this important clause that one must participate in the event, and we missed out on that little clause.



When we reached St. Xavier’s School after a 90-minute drive (and a lot of direction-asking on part of Mr. Goswami), we were told by their teachers…

A Decryption Challenge

This cipher uses a common key for encryption and decryption which is kept secret and is known to only the sender and reciever of the message.



The following is the cipher text encrypted using the key “vigilance”

“hmkb xe bp xpmylly rxiiqto lt fgzzv”

This when decrypted reads

“meet me…

Answers to Compulsory Quiz

Acronyms

1. Field Programmable Gate Array
2. Recreational Software Advisory Council
3. Multi-resolution Seamless Database
4. Media Access Control
5. Internet Message…

Cipher problem.

Right, let’s see if you all can decipher this code.

 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 

B,243,ASDECFQW,SXE,

************************************************

WSXR PPRL CCAM USRC YCQX YANN FHWT QVFE RJTM 

 CKGK JKLX HRKK IJPT PVGZ YOQG LNOW RZQM OTEM UCCD 

 NDBL MRFX RFWC YWEV…

MINET 2004 (Two programmers’ nightmare)

“Well I think this will work”

{The program is executed [ALT]+[F9] and when prompted 825 is entered}

(0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)

“YES!! Now we need a for loop to do the same for all numbers from 2 till the number entered”

{For loop…

CODE 2004 at Apeejay Noida

Since CODE 2004 is on 20, 21 December 2004, Class XII student may be unable to participate due to Pre-Pre-Board Test Series.



Senior Programming

Teams: 1

PPT (Participants per team): 2

Turbo C++; Logical, Algorithmic in nature.



Junior Programming

Teams: 1

PPT: 2

C++ and…

exunclan.com website

Ok guys,

I want to thank Karan for letting me participate and post blogs here. To start off, i used to be an advisor for Exun back in 98–99. I’ve seen your guys website for the exunclan, and i wanted to help in giving it a facelift. I wanted to start off by designing the logos. and here’s…

More Ambigrams

Thanks for those sites Rohan! It was fun generating ambigrams. First, I got a real ambigram for iPod.

Then, I got an ambigram for Exun Clan.

Since I’m a sadist, I won’t show their inversions. Crane your neck and see for yourself.



 — Karan