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Hydrophobia is a survival horror game that will go live on xbox live arcade sometimes in the future, they made a website here: http://www.hydrophobia-game.com/ with a countdown that will end next thursday.
But in the background there's more.
Written black on black there are several X, all of them link to another website http://www.neomalthusians.com/ which has a field to insert a password and a button with three small dots on it.
In this site too, there is something written black on black that can only be seen highlighting the text.
I think it may be a function, or a equation, but I can't solve it because I didn't study math at that level...
" f(t) = a X 1.01t + b X 1.02t, where a > 0 and b > 0 "
Can anybody solve this?
 
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It's an arcade game? I thought it was a full retail release!

Anyway, I think its a function, too.
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe and there interwebs comes to save the day ^^
 
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Found something interesting too, right click view source.









also, checking the function that the box is based around gives some stuff, namely this:

function check_malthusian ()
{
if (neo.malthusian.value == mal || neo.malthusian.value == mal2 || neo.malthusian.value == mal3 || neo.malthusian.value == mal4 || neo.malthusian.value == mal5 || neo.malthusian.value == mal6)
{
alert ("KnowMalthus on YouTube");
document.support.submit ();
}
else
{
alert ("No");
}

}

Looks like the correct answer gives KnowMalthus on YouTube.


Found the answer in the global variables too, its g(t) = b x 1.02t
 
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I dunno what the brackets part is, but If I'm slightly correct this is the more "english" version of the equation: A 'times' 1.01t + b 'times' 1.02t = (whatever 1.01 times 1.02 is) and the T will be the answer. Now since I can't see anything declared for the F, I can't finish the equation.

Hope someone who's awesome at maths or something can solve it for me, so I can put my theory to rest.
 
kiwisushi

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I can't find a unique solution to that. It is a function, but if both a and b are variables then they will tend to cancel themselves. Only if one variable is fixed can there be a unique solution. If I have cocked this up (wouldn't be surprised) then there you go. I differentiated wrt (t) , set to 0 found a in terms of b then subbed back into the function.
 
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Keava said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe and there interwebs comes to save the day ^^
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Just to expand on this a little, the equation in question is a theory about population growth. f(t) = a X 1.01t + b X 1.02t, where a > 0 and b > 0 has to do with the number of people that can reproduce. Essentially, the Malthusian Catastrophe is population growth exceeding available resources. An obvious tie to the "Save the World. Kill Yourself." part of the youtube video.
 
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f(t)=a*1.01^t + b*1.02^t is a function. There is nothing to solve without knowing a,b and t. t may mean time like the time till the game is released. But there is not enough information to calculate anything.
 
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Bodyless said:
f(t)=a*1.01^t + b*1.02^t is a function. There is nothing to solve without knowing a,b and t. t may mean time like the time till the game is released. But there is not enough information to calculate anything.
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Hi
The solution is g(t) = b x 1.02t lol :p
i found it by doing a little digging around the page lol.
Does anyone know what it means?

Edit: Found this on the internets.
Neo-Malthusian Theory
Neo-Malthusian theory argues that unless at or below subsistence, a population's fertility will tend to move upwards. Assume for example that a country has 10 breeding groups. Over time this country's fertility will approach that of its fastest growing group in the same way that f(t) = a*1.01t + b*1.02t will eventually come to resemble g(t) = b*1.02t regardless of how large a is or how small b is. Under subsistence conditions the fastest growing group is likely to be that group progressing most rapidly in agricultural technology. However, in above-subsistence conditions the fastest growing group is likely to be the one with the highest fertility. Therefore the fertility of the country will approach that of its most fertile group. This, however, is only part of the problem.
 
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Yes i saw that, but that does not seem to come from solving an equatation cause its basicly g(t)==f(t) with a==0 but a had to be greater than zero.
 
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