I sum up S4; there exists a ⵢ8
How many numbers does this strange summation encode, and what's the encoding?
Hint:
You do the hokey pokey and you turn your head around
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How many numbers does this strange summation encode, and what's the encoding?
Hint:
You do the hokey pokey and you turn your head around
Based on Thomas' answer and the hint on that, the answer is:
12345678
Because:
'I sum up S4' can be represented as 'I∑S4'
'There exists a ⵢ8' can be represented as '∃aⵢ8' ('a' thanks to hdsdv)
You turn your head around, as in the top half of the symbol.
'I' remains unchanged, and looks like a '1'
'∑' twists the top to look like 'Z', which also looks like '2'
'S' twists the top to looks like '3'
'4' remains unchanged
'∃' twists the top to look like a squared '5'
'a' twists the top to look like a '6'
'ⵢ' twists the top to look like '7'
'8' remains unchanged
A single number. "I∫S4;∃ⵢ8" looks like $1554.358$.
$I\sum S4\exists ⵢ8$ gives $1324328$
Because:
Based on the hint, the symbols that are reversed forms of numbers need to be turned around, so the $\Sigma$ is reversed to a 3, the S is reverses to a two and the ⵢ is also reversed to a 2.
So,
To answer the question, 5 of the seven digits in the "original number" (1324328) are encoded into letters and words.