 |
| ||
| |||
|
| Math Central | Quandaries & Queries |
|
Question from Kim: Our senior newsletter always has problems to keep the mind strong. Can you help me with this? The most common letter used in the English Language is E. The next is T. Vowels O,A and I are the next most common;then comes the letter N. Use this information to break this code. DMRA EXCEFX GC RCQ JRCL QBMQ QBX NQOGA CS DMQBXDMQTUN UMR BXFE QBXD WXMG CW LWTQX M UCGX |
Kim,
X is used often, perhaps it means e.
Also M is alone, so it is a or i.
the is frequent, so in the middle QBX could be the;
the word just before is QBMQ, probably that (not thit)
So the correspondence so far is
M -> a, X -> e, Q -> t, B -> h, so
DMRA EXCEFX GC RCQ JRCL QBMQ QBX NQOGA CS DMQBXDMQTUN UMR BXFE QBXD WXMG CW LWTQX M UCGX
becomes
*a** *e***e* ** **t **** that the *t*** ** *athe*at*** *a* he** the* *ea* ** ***te a ***e.
Can you find more clues?
Claude
| ||
| ||
| ||
 |
 |
|
Math Central is supported by the University of Regina and The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.