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Puzzle Hunt, Puzzle 1: Doubly Difficult (4,5,7)
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Oh, why did I press that annoying ‘Sort’ button in my Excel spreadsheet?
– A circle, and the identity element with respect to multiplication
– A gram, and James Bond
– A litre, and 1/(0.07692307…)
– A metre, and the first prime
– A shorthand for ‘exponential’, and XIV
– Common in most plural words, and null
– Element 92, and the final challenge in this year’s NCC
– Hydrogen, and (the first prime) raised to the power of (the second prime)
– Last letter in the Latin alphabet, and the number of numbers on a typical analogue clock face
– Least common letter in the English language, and the value of (1 + 1/12 + (1/12)^2 + (1/12)^3 + …)^(-1)
– Phosphorus, and the second odd square
– Sulfur, and the largest possible value of a 4-bit number
– The origin, and V
– The second most common letter in the English language, and the lowest composite
– The value of (1 + 1/1! + 1/2! + 1/3! + …), and the second triangle
– Union, and the value of 2^[ln(6)/ln(2)]