TEXT UN: 333

[holeful]

I've been thinking about puzzles lately. They can be good team building activities! So here's one to work on;
110020011102011’103 001 033032011-103110033102121 020033111103011 021032 113020021003020 011112011102121110020021032013 021103 121011030030033113. 121011030030033113 113001030030103, 121011030030033113 010033033102103, 121011030030033113 012111102032021110111102011. 113020001110 003033030033102 001102011 110020011 103110001021102103?

Hints;
1: Simplify
2:

[PS: If you feel like your character would be able to solve this but you personally cannot or will not do math, you can dm me or hit me on discord for a hint/the answer! Otherwise please just bully Fukuda for this horseshit.]

Comments

[watermemory]

[((I would like everyone to know I spent this whole time trying and failing to find my dip pen to write out the math steps so I could take a photo of it for verisimilitude BUT IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING BECAUSE I CAN'T FIND IT SO ASSUME THERE'S A PHOTO ATTACHMENT.JPG HERE AND IT LOOKED REALLY LEGITIMATE. WAO, SUGOI!))]

[anyway, don't listen to Professor. even if Minakami doesn't know who he is.]

See, the second solves to 4, and you know the first solution, [like Tama figured it out instead of obviously seeing his other responses]
But I don't see how it relates to the actual numbers. Is it a cipher?

Private so no one else can CHEAT

[holeful]

Are you from the past as well, Minakami-san? If you don't know what base 4 means I can help you since you've worked so hard on it.

Private; do you think someone would just DO that, go on the internet and CHEAT

[watermemory]

[Still weird to see his "present" referred to as such.]

My friend and I are, yes.
If you truly think it's something outside our frame of reference, yes, but... I would like to see how far we can get! Even if it's a future invention, we must have the resources for it!

[Fukuda, a complete stranger who he's never talked to before, wouldn't make an unfair puzzle, right? Right?]

[holeful]

[I mean it depends on how you define unfair. It's definitely solveable the question is how difficult solving it is.]

I like your attitude!! I won't tell you then. It's something you could probably easily look up if you wanted to solve it on your own, I think.