The Slow Quiz

[Silverthorn]

It's funny because no one got it. BP gets a cookie for awesome answer though.

I demand the cookie to be added to the scoreboard!

Back to the question.

Evaluate the sum of digits of "WOLOLO" in the decimal numerical system with the letters representing the ternary numerical value of their occurring position in the alphabet.

I'm going to interpret your question as following: convert each letter to its numerical value, convert those numbers into ternary, build the sum out of all digits there are while interpreting each digit in decimal. Ergo:

Code:

W  ,  O  ,  L  ,  O  ,  L  ,  O
212 , 120 , 110 , 120 , 110 , 120
2+1+2 + 1+2+0 + 1+1+0 + 1+2+0 + 1+1+0 + 1+2+0 = 5+3+2+3+2+3 = 18 (yes, it's late and I need that intermediate step :p)

So the answer would obviously be 18. Well, isn't that a coincidence?

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