Divide the length of my name by one letter, then multiply by 11 to get four times my meaning.
What country am I in?
Divide the length of my name by one letter, then multiply by 11 to get four times my meaning.
What country am I in?
EDIT
Found it!
You are in:
Uruguay – the town of Treinta y Tres, which means thirty-three in Spanish (official language of Uruguay), and was deliberately named after the ’33 Orientales’ who founded Uruguay
Workings are basically the same as my previous answer:
Treinta y Tre has 12 letters, divide by one letter to get 12. Times 11 is 132, which is four times 33.
OLD ANSWER:
You are in:
Estonia. Specifically, the town of Elva.
Divide the length of my name by one letter
Length of Elva is 4 letters, divide by one letter to get 4 (without units)
then multiply by 11
to get 44
to get four times my meaning.
Meaning is eleven, because elva means eleven in Swedish (and possibly other languages, I don't know!)
Edit 2: Found another one that fits using your latest hints.
You are in:
The United States, more specifically you are the town of Eightyeight, Kentucky.
Divide the length of my name by one letter
In the town of Eightyeight, there is only one letter that doesn't have a pair (the y), divide the length into two so Eight y eight.
then multiply by 11
What it now looks like is eight times(x) eight (but the y is like the top left of an x so you need to divide the answer by two). Eight y eight is 64/2 which is 32. 32*11=352
to get four times my meaning.
352 divide by 4 is 88 which is the original word
This is probably not what you were looking for but please give me props for my skill in finding very closely fitting wrong answers.
(I'm hoping this/these answers will give me the gold icon you have :P)
I think I got it or I'm at least close? (or way off). You're in:
The country of hell (lol)
Divide the length of my name by one letter
Divide the length of your name by one letter, your name is h34 so the name by the one letter is 34, divide it so h3 / 4
then multiply by 11 to get four times my meaning
Multiply h3 by 11 gives you h311 with a 4 on the end. This gives you 4 times h311 which is the country you are in.
You are in:
Angola, for you are Onze, a stream in Bengo province, Angola
Divide my length by one letter
The length of Onze is "4 letters", divide by "1 letter" to get 4. Units cancel as per @Sunshine289
Then multiply by 11
4 x 11 = 44
To get four times my meaning.
The meaning is therefore 11, and "onze" means 11 in Portuguese, the official language of Angola.
Thanks to @Sunshine289
Flag of Iran have 2 rows with 11 signs "Allahu Akbar", total 22. Are you in Iran?
Partial Answer:
If 4 times a meaning and is a multiple of 11, it means it could be 44, 88, ...
Obviously 4 the length divided by one number has to return a number. So let's run through some basic numbers:
4*11/4
8*11/4
12*11/4
16*11/4
20*11/4
24*11/4
28*11/4
32*11/4
36*11/4
40*11/4
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So the general idea that I'm currently working with, is that his name has a number in word form somewhere inside it, and "dividing by one letter" means to split it so you can get that number. What's the chances of someone having twelve, sixteen, ..., forty in their name anyway? Even four or eight is unlikely, but that is what we will work with.
4*11/4 = 11
8*11/4 = 22
So what sort of meaning could 11 or 22 have? I'll think on this for a while, be back to you soon!
I'm almost positive the name is in one of these lists:
http://www.scrabblefinder.com/contains/four/
http://www.morewords.com/contains/eight/
More Coming Soon!
Question for reference while editing:
Divide the length of my name by one letter, then multiply by 11 to get for times my meaning.
Old Theory
Left for educational purposes for future readers
However it says you have to divide by a letter first, you can't divide by a letter, so it has to be a number that represents a letter. Possibilities could be
A=1
B=2
...=...
Y = 25
Z = 26
Or ascii
A=65
B=66
...=...
Y=89
Z=90
And
a=97
b=98
...=...
y=121 z= 122
Which means that it could 4 times it's meaning could range from 11 to 122*11.
It is unclear to me how to narrow it down further without understand what "it" is and what the 4 times it's meaning refers to. It is possible it means that it's number is divisable by 4.
Following up on the idea that the letter times 11 can be divisable by 4
This narrows down the list to
D=4
H=8
L=12
P=16
T=20
X=24
Or Ascii:
D=68
H=72
L=76
P=80
T=84
X=88
d=104
h=108
l=112
p=116
t=120
x=124
Anybody else starting to notice a pattern here. If not lemme show you. D, H, L, P, T, X.
Step by step explanation
So let's letter*11 has to be divisible by 4. Meaning letter HAS to be either D, H, L, P, T, or X (possibly lowercase)
So we need the meaning now don't we! Well, let's go ahead and multiply and divide the list shall we?
Meanings:
Ascii_T=231
Alph_T=55
Ascii_h=297
Alph_P=44
Alph_D=11
Ascii_p=319
Ascii_d=286
Alph_H=22
Ascii_L=209
Alph_X=66
Ascii_x=341
Ascii_H=198
Ascii_l=308
Ascii_P=220
Ascii_t=330
Ascii_X=242
Alph_L=33
Ascii_D=187
What could the meaning be? May be a while until I get back with more.
Length("h34") = 3
3 divided by one letter ("h", "3" or "4") results in
3/3 = 1 or 3/4.
Times 11 is either
11 or 33/4 which equals 4 times the meaning.
11 = 4x or 33/4 = 4x giving me x either is
11/4 or 33/16
The alphabet tells me K/D(not defined) or G/P (Guadeloupe).
KK/D(Kempen/Germany) or CC/AF (Somwhere in Afghanistan).
I have no idea what to do now :)
Ok so I don't know the answer but my line of thinking seems different than other posters, so I figure I should post it.
The first thing that struck me was that the riddle says to divide by a letter. This is only possible in two ways as far as I know:
1) The letter is a variable, say x. 2) The "letter" is actually a Roman numeral.
As the first option seems ridiculous in this context, I'm assuming the second. Given that it has been said that "divide by one letter" is somehow different from "divide by a letter", that leads to one of two more conclusions:
1) This is literal. You are meant to divide by the letter for one, or I. 2) This means "divide by one of my letters", meaning the country name contains a Roman numeral (I, V, X, L, D, C, M).
I'm not sure which of those is correct.
This line of reasoning led me to think that it's possible that the number 11 is actually referring to
the Roman numeral II, or 2.
That could be wrong though.
The last bit of the riddle is what really confuses me though. "My meaning" implies
the meaning of the country itself. I looked into the etymologies of country names and found a few that reference numbers such as Bahrain which means "two seas" (which is an interesting one because 2 C's or CC actually means 200 in Roman numerals), but I couldn't make any of them fit.
So like I said, I can't at all figure out a solution to the riddle, but I thought a fresh perspective may spark something for someone else.
Edit: It's also possible that "multiply by 11" means
Take the previous number and attach XII (x11) to get "four times my meaning". So if the first half of the riddle yields MMC, for example, then that "times 11" would be MMCXII.