[sherlockx]

deduct the number of the latest Ducati Monster

deduct the year of Tunguska

deduct the year of the next appearance of Halley's comet

deduct the number of the Bahner asteroid that reminds you of the Fibonacci sequence

deduct 2 lakh

what is the year number you are left with and may an international R.E.M song occur to you (which one)

100wrz$ reward to the first one to post the 2 answers and the working out.

This is so easy folks

[Guy1731]

This is so easy folks

I hate it when you say that.

Jeee... Yes, one can find the numbers, that song maybe too, but 'deduct' from what? I really have no clue...

But thinking...

Guy1731

[XVI]

LOL, I got -205531
so in years that would be 205531 BC

[Zacharie]

Maybe I should tell another story while we wait for the correct answer...

(Could that song from R.E.M. be 'In the year 2525....?)

[Guy1731]

Sherlockx? You need only straight answer in this topic, or are we allowed to discuss/exchange thoughts?

Guy1731

[sherlockx]

XVI you have got some of the numbers wrong.
But in any event as Guy says:

'deduct' from what? I really have no clue...

the clues are all there but you need to consider the gestalt & use a little imagination.

Zacharie in the year 2525 was best known by Zager & Evans, did not know that R.E.M had done a version.
But yes by all means tell a story

perhaps people need to employ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

[sherlockx]

Guy asks:

You need only straight answer in this topic, or are we allowed to discuss/exchange thoughts?

Of course you may, you may even ask me questions but I cannot guarantee I will give straightforward replies

[Zacharie]

...but I cannot guarantee I will give straightforward replies

Then don't and let us discuss.

ok, my thoughts:

the number of the latest Ducati Monster: 1198
the year of Tunguska: 1908
the year of the next appearance of Halley's comet: 2061
the number of the Bahner asteroid that reminds you of the Fibonacci sequence: complicated one, the number of the Bahner asteroid is 2358 (don't know what the Fibonacci sequence has to see in this... yet)
1 lakh is 100000 (I think) but what unit?
then the REM song seems 'in the year 2525' to me <--- this one I wrote without reading your reply about it, will have to reconsider...

And true: 'This is so easy folks' is not to me!

Story will follow, in the meantime I listened to that REM song, now could this be true?

In the year 2525
if Sherlockx is till alive
and we all can survive
we will find the clue...

Nice one, Sherlockx!

(Err... and yes, of course you may reply!)

[sherlockx]

Zacharie,

the number of the latest Ducati Monster: 1198

wrong, that one was released in 2009, there is a later one
The R.E.M song... wrong one If you know what to deduct the numbers from the right song will become fairly obvious, let us just say that you are a few hundred years out

When you get it right you will feel fine
have I ever mentioned that one of my favourite stories is " The purloined letter" by E A Poe

p.s Fibonacci sequence

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233

[XVI]

deduct the number of the latest Ducati Monster = 796
deduct the year of Tunguska = 1908
deduct the year of the next appearance of Halley's comet = 2061
deduct the number of the Bahner asteroid that reminds you of the Fibonacci sequence = 2358
deduct 2 lakh = 200000

rem song is 1,000,000

[Zacharie]

'deduct' from what, XVI?

[XVI]

'deduct' from what, XVI?

1,205,531?

[davidgilling]

Could it be 2012? This is a wild guess that comes only from one clue: and may an international R.E.M song occur to you (which one): could it be "It's The End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)"? =D

That would mean (according to XVI's figures) that the starting number would be 209'135.

And XVI why 1,205,531?

[XVI]

well 2 lakh is 200000 or how the indians write it 2,00,000

[sherlockx]

davidgilling has got the answer right both for the year & the song but to get the WRZ$ how do you get there?
did you spot the clue "and may an" mayan

So come on a little reverse mathematics will tell you what you should have started deducting from ,(209135) all I need to know is where that number comes from