The Strange Practices at The Broadcaster's Inn • Broadcasting in NumPy (A NumPy for Numpties article)
The Broadcaster's Inn sits alone at the edge of the town. It's not a flashy place, but it's popular; perhaps because of the rumours, well-known among residents of Nump Town; perhaps because of its flawless, efficient service. Perhaps, those two reasons are linked.
The hotel's layout is also a bit peculiar: Five identical floors, each with eight rows of ten rooms. And each room is "detached", so you can walk north to south and east to west everywhere within the grid—more weirdness to fuel the locals' stories.
Part of the mystery surrounding The Broadcaster's Inn is its staff. No one has ever met anyone who works there outside the hotel itself. Do they all come from out of town? Conspiracy theories abound.
Exclusive: I secured an interview with a staff member on condition of anonymity. Time to figure out which of the rumours are true.
Each of the five blocks you see above represents a floor or level. Your computer can't display this array in 3D, so it deconstructs it floor by floor. In each block, each row represents one of the eight corridors. And each value in a row represents a room. There are ten rooms per corridor.
