the answer seems to be teasing my brain..

I guess it's a variation to "Congrats, you won!" or something. Still, I believe "alas" should have been "At last".

thank you refsmat, this is the brain teasers forum, i simply made up the whole thing.

 

Alas does mean at last.

 

And thank you for clearing up my mistakes, inever wrote binary before.

try writing base thirteen... it's very difficult without making up new figures.

 

Alas does mean at last.

 

 

really? I thought Alas has negative connotations to it, kind of like "unfortunatley we now have a winner" . While "at last" was supposed to be possitive, like "Yes! finally a winner"

i think that's just the way people have made it sound and used in coversation.it's kind of like how a pimp used to be a bad thing and now it isn't

 

 

i guess...

or it's alas as in "alas the code was broken"

i think that's just the way people have made it sound and used in coversation.

 

And isn't that what connotations are?

oh sry, im an idiot.

 

 

the point is i wanted it to sound like a congrats.