WORD2NUM means:
Any method or procedure that converts any word or group of letters into a unique integer.
Given the method and the integer, one can figure out the word. Not all integers correspond to a word.
A specific procedure might work only with a specific alphabet, but with slight modification could be made to work with another alphabet.

To decipher this message, you need to figure out what WORD2NUM procedure I used.

First here is a partial "Rosetta Stone".
ALL = 13737
YOUR = 1618515
ARE = 13946
BELONG = 689654284
TO = 1068
US = 1108
WHAT = 1515413
YOU = 44958
SAY = 36682
MAIN = 1040063
SCREEN = 1714486703
TURN = 1392899
ON = 887

Here is the ciphertext:
831805 21303239 48023009 48023009 1235714990931 17741 16438 48023009 23842631010 48023009 370 1086220895 52925280 17741 13993 891 926381 1008910850 13737 1618515 527198 13946 689654284 1068 1108 38112134

The solution decodes to

HTTP COLON SLASH SLASH {gibberish} DOT COM SLASH {gibberish} SLASH AA HYPHEN VIDEO DOT ASP OR JUST GOOGLE ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US MOVIE

What I came up with fails to decode the two {gibberish} words.

To encode a word (Value = V), encode each letter (L_i) in succession as follows, where the first letter is L_1

V_1 = L_1 + 9

V_i = 36 * V_i-1 + L_i + 9

To decode a number, note that reversing the process will decode the last letter of the word first.

L_j = mod(V_j - 9,36)

V_j-1 = (V_j - L_j - 9)/36

 

Posted by Bob Smith on 2005-07-15 20:10:31