Scioly Assassination 80: The Wretched Wraith

[Littleboy]

Most people would think of a phone number with a 7 digit number.

[mnstrviola]

Erm, I will protect myself because I couldn't figure out the clue and I want to live to see the next kill clue

[Luo]

Some thoughts: The 50th Pythagorean triple when ordered by hypotenuse length is 65-72-97. The Wiki page on Kopaka says something about Toa, which could be a reference to the "Toa" part of the SOHCAHTOA mnemonic. "Cosigning" could be pointing us in the direction of cosine. Maybe dividing different combinations of 65, 72, and 97 could lead to a solution to the clue?

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the sassy targeted someone not active in these games, given the warning that "absolutely ANY other individuals may be targeted from the forum."

[Luo]

Sigh. I'll protect croman74 because the cosine of an angle in the aforementioned triangle is 0.74. None of the other cosine or tangent values produced any numbers that I could connect to members of the forum. Croman74 hasn't participated since game #56, but the sassy's warning about any member being fair game makes me a little more comfortable protecting him. Meh.

Fellow officers: PLEASE PROTECT. Protecting someone based on shoddy reasoning is better than protecting no one at all. We should have 5 people protected for every single clue.

[foreverphysics]

I protect Squanto because a) SOHCAHTOA is an Indian word, b) Kopak sounds like it.

[Luo]

SOHCAHTOA is an Indian word

Heh, I think the normal usage is the trigonometry mnemonic, but okay.

[harryk]

I protect quadratic because the tangent of the triple 65-72-97 is 42(if I did it right, it been awhile since I've used trig) and he started the 42 sightings thread

[Assassinator]

0Your time is up. You have failed yet again. However I liked your work and no one has died due to incompetence.
My true target was harryk. However on my way to kill him I ran into him as he was protecting Luo's suggestion, the fact he had a gun aimed at me did nothing to change my mind.

6The clue was pointing at his user ID (which has been done multiple times before). This was a clue based off of the cosign of 50 degrees with the adjacent side being Kopaka's ID (8536) so the equation would be cos(50) = 8536/x = 13280 which points to harryk

3Don't get cocky this is not going to happen again.

Lets get some more protects in this time or I may start killing for fun

[harryk]

/facepalm
How did I not think of model number when it came to Legos!?!?
Oh well, but I think the clue explanations are working, because I'm sure I would be questioning the logic of the clue if it wasn't explained

[AlphaTauri]

This was a clue based off of the cosign of 50 degrees with the adjacent side being Kopaka's ID (8536) so the equation would be cos(50) = 8536/x = 13280 which points to harryk

You do know it's spelt "cosine" and not "cosign", right?