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Post by kydave on Aug 23, 2008 12:17:03 GMT -5
While digging thru some of my paperwork found this that some might find interesting. The length of cipher B3 falls between B1. It has 618 entries ranging from 1 to 975 with a mean of 153. However, runs up and down extend far beyond the range to be expected from random numbers with three runs up of length nine and also a shortage of runs down of length three and greater. In view of this we might suspect that earlier practice or a change in the mental approach to the encoding task could account for this unusal pattern. Also, letter counting instead of word counting might produce such a pattern. Autoregression produces four significant cycles of lengths three, five, elecen and seventeen. By comparison with B1 and B2 we find that the longest of these cycles reflects the personal signature of the author. Modulo reductions of the cipher entries yeild six significant values without predominance of odd or even; this time multiples of five dominate, possibly indicating that the numbering scheme used for encoding of this cipher differs from that used in B1 and B2. More on B1 and B2 coming soon! Source of info: The Beale Cipher Disk by R. Edward Mitchell Jr. and distributed by ICE Corporation 2940 Waterlick Road Forest Virginia 24551 Ph. 804-237-5400
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Post by Rebel KGC on Aug 23, 2008 16:28:36 GMT -5
;D THANKS, kydave! Right in my "neighborhood".
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