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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize *more
by
Prospero
on 02/07/2014, 16:52:26 UTC
According to Wolfram Alpha, it's not a triangular number.  Sad

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=is+2147129+a+triangular+number%3F

"if the positive triangular root n of x is an integer, then x is the nth triangular number"

$ bc
((8 * 2147129 + 1) -1 )/2
8588516.00000000000000000000