The equations

[scorpii]

I am trying to crack the equations shown in CSI:Miami. Now that I have a decent calculator, I may be able to crack them. But has anyone else a clue on what the equations may mean?

[scorpii]

Okay haven't cracked them yet but recently I watched the commentary ep of 'Shootout' (3.12). There, they talked about 'codes', not equations. So, my guess is the equations can't be solved. But I am able to write names like the equations/codes. My name:
12+A=3h.
My screenname:
(9)h=11
My best friend's name:
4cb-86r=(Nh)hb1
I can do that for others too...

[Fabian]

I don't think that I understand what you are talking about...what equations exactly?

[scorpii]

Oh yeah I may have to explain what I'm talking about:
the equations you see before the names in the credits. You know?
Like 4y − 1 = 3b(Nh) becomes David Caruso.
You get what I mean?

[Fabian]

O yes, I do.

[Ophelia]

well i can tell you that mathematically with four variables, there is no way that david caruso's equation is solveable...i like math, but that just doesnt fly.

4y − 1 = 3b(Nh)
is the same as
y=(3bNh+1)/4
and i guess could substitute that to
4((3bNh+1)/4)=3bNh
and simplify to
3bNh+1=3bNhb
but that's impossible because then you can cancel out the 3bNh from both sides and you get
1=0
so unless those variables have other meanings, the equation, as it stands, is unsolveable...
...which means they are either codes or total BS meant for the coolness factor alone.

[scorpii]

Okay. I agree now.

[mystic]

what system would you have spotted, scorpii?

Because I don't understand how you substituated y=(3bNh + 1)/4 to 4((3bNh + 1)/4 = 3bNh, Ophelia
if I, well, play with the equation, my y=1...but I don't have solutions for b, N and h...

Besides, I don't think that it's a mathematical equation, because why would the put (Nh) in brackets? You only have to put something in brackets when its linked with a + or + or do I mix something up?

I mean you don't have to write 4 (3*8) - that's nonsense! Because
every way to solve it, it's either 4*24 or 12*8 or 32*3 and that's the same every time: 96
So it doesn't make any sense to me, that (N*h) is put into brackets...

[Ophelia]

i don't see any reason why the Nh should be in the () mathematically- sometimes i've seen it done to break up long equations to make them more easily read, but that's the only reason i've seen.

once you re-arrange to figure out what a variable is, you can substitute it back into the equation. since i re-arranged to figure out y, i can replace it back into the original equation- we used to use that format to solve two-variable equations.

i'm not good at describing mathy things unless i have the paper and pencil in front of me to use as scratch paper...sorry!

cheers!

[mystic]

I get what you mean - I can't explain mathy things to others very well, if I understand it... well, doesn't matter anyway...maybe they took letters and numbers out of the blue...

[calleighduquesne]

I don't know if this is a blooper or intentional but you know how each character has thier own opening credits equations?? well you may not have realised this but i did....Rory's and Jon's equations have the exact same variable groupings just in a different order.....

Rory's is...(3h) + (7b) = 6m
Jon's is....(7b) = 6m + (3h)

the (3h) has just been moved to the other side of the equation....i don't know if that was on purpose or something...but it's just a thought and i thought it was worth telling...oh and everyone's equations are the exact same length as the actors' names.....some may be spread out more but that's only so u can count them easier....

D a v i d C a r u s o
4 y - 1= 3 b ( N h )

E m i l y P r o c t e r
3 a 1- x = ( A 9 X y )

A d a m R o d r i g u e z
3 b + N = 7 b n 1 ( 6 A )

K h a n d i A l e x a n d e r
x - T 4 a = ( 7 h ) 3 X y N h

R o r y C o c h r a n e
( 3 h ) + ( 7 b ) - 6 m

J o n a t h a n T o g o
( 7 b ) = 6 m+ ( 3 h )

K i m D e l a n e y
A 1 b + B 2 c = R 4

and when Rex Linn and Eva La rue have one i'll figure those out too.. and Sofia Milos didn't have one so.....

[scorpii]

Yeah about the Rory Cochrane/Jonathan Togo equation I know... you know what? On www.cbs.com/primetime/csi_miami/blog2.php, in one of the blog entries from last year, Corey Miller's e-mail address is told as being [e-mail]. I don't know whether that's still active, I do hope so, and maybe Crimelab can send him an e-mail in which is asked to explain the equations...