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Shakespeare's Numbers (Posted on 2004-01-09) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Given that

232232:1428:23176:321623251421:247:242827:9182212161427141929:97959391

is the first line to one of Shakespeare's more famous plays, what does

144510:819162710182224:20221422621:330:21151028:202415:207:32162812:13151719

mean?

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Some Thoughts Not a cryptologist but . . . | Comment 1 of 6
Not an answer but some thoughts. The numbers are heavily weighted toward ones and twos and lightly weighted toward zero. This appears to be some sort of direct/indirect substitution of numbers 1-26 for the letters of the alphabet. This leads me to believe that the words are of the following lengths: 4:2:3:7:2:5:12:8. Second line: 4:9:6:5:3:2:6:4

The last series of numbers in the first line is significantly different. It has no twos and only one "1" at the end.

Other thoughts are that "27" and "28" appear often and "13 15 17 19" are the last numbers of the second line.

Does this help? Thought not! :)


  Posted by Dan Blume on 2004-01-09 16:46:14
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