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Are we odd for liking this, too? (Posted on 2005-08-30)

In "Are we odd for liking this?" we were asked to decipher an encrypted message. Can you decipher this message too?

57249994402124186529762
56227185287614394317684
72245794427434367112219
38125347227414186714489
63634187664324288447732

See The Solution Submitted by Erik O.

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possible solution (spoiler ?)

| Comment 13 of 18 |

I summed the digits in each column, subtracted 26 from any result greater than 26, replace resulting zeroes with blank spaces and got:

modularraritjmetic

which seems so close to:

modular arithmetic

that I wonder what little mistake I must have made.

Posted by Mindy Rodriguez on 2005-10-29 20:35:44

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