FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR ONELIST'S CIPHER CHALLENGE GROUP This version (March 2000) contains answers to the following questions: 1) Where can I get an...
CipherChallenge@yahoo...
Nov 1, 2001 5:26 pm
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Hello can someone help me crack this code. THese are the words of the famous galactic hitchhiking author that have been "ENCRPTED" using a simple substitution...
The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules as we go along Douglas Adams Tim...
Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Nov 2, 2001 3:34 am
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In a message dated 11/1/01 8:05:37 PM, hurdlertobe@... writes: << EAT MYTUE REVAMP UGDQE GTVZM EAT DOHA RSTWVTR ESAU CUT U LVREVZWEVDZ GTEOTTZ YEMEN UGLY...
... me, how you crack the code. Please! ... I'll let Tim do his own explaining, but simple frequency analysis of letters, bigraphs, and trigraphs would be...
Reynaldo, The Code Book by Simon Singh can be ordered through any major book dealer and now available in paperback. Amazon his it for $8.40. See: ...
Gish, David
gish@...
Nov 2, 2001 8:38 pm
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I have a talent for finding newgroups for any topic that i am having a problem with. Thanks alot of the information I have to order that book. Gish, David" ...
Well it wont included a new challenge. (SS told me before that he wouldn't do another one). I suspect it will be a book detailling how the code was cracked, ...
In a message dated 11/4/01 12:56:42 PM Central Standard Time, ... He said before that he was writing such a book and had asked the folks who were on the leader...
Hello everyone, I'm an 18 years old mexican kid who just got the code book about two weeks ago, I know that this group has gone way beyond solving the cipher...
Dear all, Here is a mathematician enigm that a friend of mine has sent me. I really can't solve it. Do you have any idea ? Regards, Nicolas Guerrero. In...
What amazes me with this enigm is : the fact that the second one says "I thought so" / "So I gathered" / "I knew it" enables the first one to find the...
The two numbers are 4 and 13, their sum is 17 and their product is 52. Start from the premise that the two numbers cannot both be prime, or the first Russian...
Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Nov 8, 2001 11:26 pm
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The more I think about this problem, the more I'm convinced there's more than one possibility. Unless I'm missing something, the numbers could be 4 and x where...
I've just found the problem as it should have been written... it makes much more sense now! There are two mathematicians in a room. The product of two integers...
Tim, Your solution is thrilling my brain since this morning (here in France, 20 000 kms from Queensland ! :)). Briefly, I was very impressed by your...
Hi got a great puzzle along this line, I will put it up tommorow, the points in order yes can not be an almost prime no both number could be composite false...
Dear all, I have two questions : 1) Could you please remind me what is the approximate proportion of prime numbers in the range of integers [0;infinity[ ? 2)...
... Number theory says: let denote PI(x) the number of prime <= x limit(PI(x)/(x/ln x), x, +inf) = 1 Which means for x big enough, the number of prime <= x is ...
Mark, OK, so let me do another step along the way. One important fact is that the second Russian knows the first Russian can't work out the numbers...
Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Nov 9, 2001 10:44 pm
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Mark, I know it sounds similar, but this is a different problem. It is crucial to the original problem as posed that #2 knows that #1 cannot work out the...
Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Nov 9, 2001 10:48 pm
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Ah yes, what you wrote made me go back and reread the original problem... It seems I totally misinterpreted the "I knew it" line by reading far too deeply into...
So anyone know if 0 and/or 1 is composite? ... Simon ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. ...
Sorry if this is the same puzzle, I think it is. but it has got some grovy names. An exchange of notes between 2 super logicians: Dear Plink, I have asked...
Tim, ... say 4 and 7. If this were the answer, then the second Russian would have been told the sum (11), and it is therefore possible (to him) that the...
Hi Nicolas, ... Yes. The larger the range, the more possibilities have to be checked. ... No. If #2 had been told 16, then he could not have known for sure...
Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Nov 11, 2001 1:14 pm
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... Hi Simon, 1 is a unit (a third categoryof elements of integer rings of number fields). The prime/composite distinction is usually reserved for the natural ...
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