Jun 25, 2008
If Randall Munroe and Arnold Schoenberg had a love-child who was a hopeless romantic, he would…
#1) Take the name of his sweetheart, convert it to ASCII encoding, take the exclusive-or of each letter with the letters of a secret message, use each letter-wise result, modulo 13, as the note in a tone row to compose a string quartet. Then he would have it performed for her and ask her to decipher the secret message after hearing the performance. If she gets it in 72 hours, then it’s true love.
Bonus points if she gets it in a number of hours that’s a power of two or changes the universe using butterflies.