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I tried that and got nothing. The numbers and text are here: (http://cipherfoundation.org/older-ciphers/beale-papers/beale-papers-transcription/ http://cipherf

I tried that and got nothing. The numbers and text are here: (http://cipherfoundation.org/older-ciphers/beale-papers/beale-papers-transcription/ http://cipherfoundation.org/older-ciphers/beale-papers/beale...) Credit to kencausey

chatmasta 11y ago
I think you're probably right on your lucky guess (I see you edited it out, so I'll suppress the spoiler alert as well :)). I was able to get something fairly close to that with variable offsets.
- frogpelt 11y ago
  What text did you find it in?
  - chatmasta 11y ago
    I "roughly" got it using the DOI txt I linked above. I tried again with the pre-mapped text you linked to, and got `e o a p s p` which is an anagram for `appose`... perhaps that is the word? "Appose" means "to place (something) in proximity to or juxtaposition with something else." Maybe I'm grasping at straws here... Offset of +1 yields `b s a i t h` which is an anagram for habits. Offset of -1 yields `a t a l b t` which is an anagram for Alt-Tab (which is roughly what I'm doing right now to get out of this :p) I also tried all offsets within 0-7 for each character, to see if "CIPHER" could fit in that range. CI_H_R is possible but there is no P or E within +/- 7 offset of 201 or 337. Here's the python: txt="""<<Pasted from http://cipherfoundation.org/older-ciphers/beale-papers/beale-papers-transcription/>>""" import re codes = txt.split(' ') codes = filter(None, codes) code2word = {} words = [] for code in codes[0:-1]: try: index = re.search(re.compile(ur'\((\d+)\)'), code).group(1) except: index = index + 1 word = code.replace('(%d)' % int(index), '') code2word[int(index)] = word print index, word for code in [89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480]: word = code2word[code] print word[0], Good luck

chatmasta 11y ago

I think you're probably right on your lucky guess (I see you edited it out, so I'll suppress the spoiler alert as well :)). I was able to get something fairly close to that with variable offsets.

frogpelt 11y ago
What text did you find it in?
- chatmasta 11y ago
  I "roughly" got it using the DOI txt I linked above. I tried again with the pre-mapped text you linked to, and got `e o a p s p` which is an anagram for `appose`... perhaps that is the word? "Appose" means "to place (something) in proximity to or juxtaposition with something else." Maybe I'm grasping at straws here... Offset of +1 yields `b s a i t h` which is an anagram for habits. Offset of -1 yields `a t a l b t` which is an anagram for Alt-Tab (which is roughly what I'm doing right now to get out of this :p) I also tried all offsets within 0-7 for each character, to see if "CIPHER" could fit in that range. CI_H_R is possible but there is no P or E within +/- 7 offset of 201 or 337. Here's the python: txt="""<<Pasted from http://cipherfoundation.org/older-ciphers/beale-papers/beale-papers-transcription/>>""" import re codes = txt.split(' ') codes = filter(None, codes) code2word = {} words = [] for code in codes[0:-1]: try: index = re.search(re.compile(ur'\((\d+)\)'), code).group(1) except: index = index + 1 word = code.replace('(%d)' % int(index), '') code2word[int(index)] = word print index, word for code in [89, 263, 201, 500, 337, 480]: word = code2word[code] print word[0], Good luck