• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Maybe reverse engineering isn’t the right term.

    Brute forcing using the provided calculator and calculated guesswork till i got something that matched one of the answers.

    I sometimes lost points for “something off in my formula” but the answer was correct so i passed overal.

    I have a nack for “visualizing” certain math allowing for calculated guesses. I had a few instances (not on a test) where i literally just told the teacher i had not the faintest clue how to tackle the solution but it just screamed “x=3” and i was kindly told “well done, but no points without formula. “

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      5 months ago

      That’s making more sense to me, but my view of reverse engineering is 100% tainted by my work in SRE and hacking.

      I work in the same way, but I’ve kinda forgot about using a calculator since the last few math classes I took forbid using calculators