Posted on 10/20/2022 3:29:59 AM PDT by nikos1121
XEP PKFO PYEOB NY HKFVLYU VKL NP PKFO EQY NFL NP ZKD PKF BSYVU PKFO UEPB. —HELZYOJVY SFCBJIYO
The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram).
Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated, you’ll be solving them all within a few days. If you’re stumped, take a break and return to it.
PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and how you made out.
You can certainly send your solution to my private reply, or if you need a hint for today’s Cryptogram ASK THE GROUP FOR HELP!
I suggest printing these out and work them on paper. If you need a little help you can copy and paste it to Hal’s Helper below.
You can then work on the puzzle without using pen and paper, but I recommend that you do NOT look at the letter counter.
One last request. Feel free to post a fun or clever clue, the more tangential to the quotation the better, but please don’t put the actual words of the quote in the clue.
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VDSIED O EDSJTD ZI ZFQD WIJE UJDTZOIPT, O BFMD FP ILDPOPY TZFZDHDPZ. —EIPFGC EDFYFP
Solution to previous puzzle (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
BEFORE I REFUSE TO TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS, I HAVE AN OPENING STATEMENT. —RONALD REAGAN
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
It’s a numbers thing.
Ludolph van Ceulen, using Archimedes’ methods, approximated the circle with a regular polygon which had 2⁶² sides. It took 25 years of hand calculations to produce a 35 digit approximation of π, which was inscribed in his tombstone in 1610.
We know how he spent his days.
Autistic chap no doubt?
Digits of pi was sort of the Apollo Project of its day. He was a professor of mathematics at one of the first engineering schools in Europe. The complexity of Archimedes method is logarithmic in the number of polygons, 2^62 is only twice as hard as 2^31. I believe had help from his students: He would assign parts of the problem and accept the consensus result as his answer.
Persistent, driven, yes. Autistic, maybe not so much.
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