EASTER EGG 2017 (old, but still functional)

December 6, 2017

We have hidden an Easter egg in the Advent calendar. This is how an unexpected funny feature of a software is called. We wish you fun while searching for it.

Please do not ask questions about the Easter egg by the contact form or by email. Those will be ignored and not answered. There is nothing to win, it is just for fun. Whoever finds it, may write an email to webmaster@physik-im-advent.de, let's see how long it takes for the first to find it.

We will release further hints about the Easter egg here in the next days. As we do not link this page from the start page all the time, please first remember the URL of this page. And you can start the search …

December 8, 2017

Hey, remembered the URL? Obviously. Very good! Unfortunately there is not yet a hint for today. Right now nobody contacted us yet, who found the Easter egg. There have been tries/ideas/suggestions already, but no hit so far. Tomorrow we will release the first hint. And continuing that way, every third day.

December 9, 2017

The Easter egg is only visible at pupil accounts.

December 12, 2017

It is related to a property, which appears at pupil accounts only.

December 15, 2017

The Easter egg is on the profile page.

December 18, 2017

It is about the age value. (This is reason for the connection to pupil accounts. The age is needed and used as a criteria for some of the prizes.)

December 21, 2017

Numbers normally have units in physics.

December 24, 2017

At our Easter egg you can click on a unit to change it, and the number will be converted accordingly.

December 27, 2017

Our software uses the proleptic Gregorian calendar. This is not really a hint anymore. It should be clear already, that you can click on the "years" in the profile of pupil accounts. Did you notice what happens? And re-calculated the number of leap years? For fun you can change your age to 100 years, 400 years or even 1000 years. For those values it is very easy to count the number of leap years. You will notice that we simply extend the leap year rules back in history, even though the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582 and only in a few countries at first. (Please don't forget to change back your age.) In addition we can not calc your age in precise days. The days until the current day at your first year in life are missing. We do not know your birthday, and we do not want to have it either. This is called data austerity.

By the way, we received the first messages that the Easter egg was found on December 9 already. In the days before, a few messages reached us, containing wrong (but quite good/interesting) suggestions. Later we got more and more correct solutions. We hope the search for the Easter egg was fun for you as it was for us.

We wish you a nice holiday season and a happy new year. We will see us again next year, deal?! Until then!