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Was it proper thing to stop myself from writing "five random words are here" as a response to "Write five random words"?
by ArekDymalski 11y ago
Was it proper thing to stop myself from writing "five random words are here" as a response to "Write five random words"?
- knodi123 11y agoFun anecdote. I took a cryptography exam, where the question was "Progress as far as possible towards decrypting or decoding the following message:", followed by a sequence of letters in alphabetical order- several As, a different number of Bs, and so on. It seemed obvious to me that a message that has been sorted into alphabetical order cannot be reversed without luck and a computer, so I assumed the unencoded version was something we could guess. On a hunch, I checked the question itself, and sure enough, the answer was "Progress as far as possible towards decrypting or decoding the following message". Apparently I was the only one to figure it out.
- bglusman 11y agoFor anyone curious, it looks like this would be what he was shown, assuming spaces omitted and all lower case: "aaaaabccddddeeeeeeeffggggghiiiilllmnnnoooooooppprrrrrrssssssssstttwwy"