There seems to be much debate in the group on the nature of the puzzle that we have been set. As far as I can ascertain the key section of the letters which we...
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Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Sep 1, 2000 2:58 pm
... Yes, my first choice of language in the plaintext is English. But, as you point out, education was different 160 ago, when the USA was less than one...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 7, 2000 1:44 pm
I've look hard at the symbol encoding table published by "mystery_inc " and I disagree on a few following letters... I use a different coding system from this...
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mystery_inc
mystery_inc@...
Sep 8, 2000 9:30 pm
Hi Rob, I've re-checked my list of probable letter interpretations to your "eap.jpg", and I have to agree I found 1 error, I listed the f upside down (f6). As...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 12, 2000 7:41 am
Hi Mystery ... different to my interpretations then ... deciphering this is actually having ... I agree with this without an accurate interpretation of the...
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Andie
mystery_inc@...
Sep 12, 2000 10:07 pm
... me... ... I've looked at all the images and found all the x's to be the right way up (2) and (3) and that they are all small case (x3) except the first...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 13, 2000 12:12 am
... see ... By Shawn I assume you mean Rosenheim - if so he is a prof at the college I went to - when I first made this list I e-mailed him to let him know...
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Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Sep 13, 2000 1:34 am
... For Western European Literature try: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html For English/American Literature try Project Gutenberg at: ...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 13, 2000 7:49 am
The two words with most in common are:- <<...>> 80 . 11 [x1q4c4m5k2u1y5w5e5k5a6] and <<...>> 113 . 9 [k2y3s1x1t3c4e5f4a6] they have astonishing 5 letters in...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 13, 2000 2:18 pm
And for those of you that are in the camp that it is Poe who wrote these himself and not "Tyler", after doing a quick Perl search of all of Poe's works for all...
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Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Sep 13, 2000 4:03 pm
... For a quick look, I assumed that ALL the letters in both words were unique (i.e. no homophones among the letters of the two words), except for the 5...
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Jambonicus Q. Jambone
jambone6@...
Sep 13, 2000 8:53 pm
... That word wouldn't be "countenance" by any chance, would it? I haven't gathered statistics on all of Poe's works yet, but that is the one 11-letter word...
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Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Sep 13, 2000 9:55 pm
... If "countenance" were correct, then word 113 would be "t..c.un.e". I couldn't find any English word to match that pattern. Regards, Dave...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 13, 2000 10:01 pm
That was 3rd at 92. The 2nd highest is 93... first comes in at 289. (4th is 91) Interesting jump, all so close and then a big jump (there are only 10 eleven...
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Andie
mystery_inc@...
Sep 14, 2000 2:09 am
Two words with most letters in common... There are a few words that are like this. One of the programs I wrote (a few years ago now) allowed me to pick groups...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 14, 2000 3:24 am
... I was going to sit down this evning and among other coding things, I was going to make a web page that would allow you to change each letter and see how it...
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Niteowl
niteowl@...
Sep 14, 2000 4:29 am
... Good question. I have a program which can give you an approximate answer. This program is derived from a simple substitution with word division solver...
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Tim Roberts
t.roberts@...
Sep 14, 2000 7:43 am
Rob, ... Has anyone yet thanked you for REMITTING this INTERESTING email ? ... Tim...
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Rob Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 14, 2000 2:32 pm
... No but then again I don't think the puzzle will be as eassily solved by just solving this... I've written a program which works out using the code and a...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 14, 2000 2:54 pm
... Finally someone else will go with what I've ben saying from day one :) I thought Latin briefly b/c of the Cato reference, but then ran into enough other...
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Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Sep 14, 2000 5:41 pm
... Look at the following URL for pattern finders in lots of languages: http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/words/ Regards, Dave...
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Andie
mystery_inc@...
Sep 15, 2000 1:02 am
... in ... No! ... It shows up in the same place all the time, but not complete, i.e THOER FRADRANT. I certainly haven't got it. I've searched the internet for...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 15, 2000 2:53 am
... I wrote it - Flower Fables by Alcott - but that was written in 1854 - too late. man my network connection got way slow all of the sudden (it is normally...
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Eric Smith
esmith@...
Sep 15, 2000 3:00 am
... remember I said I was brain dead? one small note here - "thv" shows up 46 times, it has a score then of 6 sorry...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 15, 2000 7:40 am
... One of Poe's letters says that he was away for one publication of the magazine and didn't get a chance to proof read the cryptograms printed. He then...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 15, 2000 7:41 am
Here's a low quality JPG of how the two words I have highlighted spread themselves over the rest of the cipher... Rob <<...>> ...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 15, 2000 7:41 am
Thanks for the Vote! I suppose a vote of 1 isn't so bad :-) ... Ok, so to make everything crystal clear, what I think you are saying is... The 'x' in these...
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Rob Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 15, 2000 9:27 am
... Thanks Dave, what an excellent URL Rob...
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Robert Marston
rob.marston@...
Sep 15, 2000 2:46 pm
... Picture Got lost, lets try again... <<Poe-wedge.jpg>> *********************************************************************** This email is confidential....
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mystery_inc
mystery_inc@...
Sep 15, 2000 7:03 pm
... I think that its very new and has only just be post. as a matter of interest Addison also contributed to and co-authored magazines "Tatler" and "Spectator"...
