deea 0 #1 May 10, 2006 "The whole of this aforementioned country is so gripped by winter that for eight months of the year there is truly unbearable frost such that in those months when you spill water you do not make mud, but if you light a fire you will" So I'm working on this number theory assignment and we had to decrypt a thing and it decoded into he message above, and now the extra credit question is to identify who said it. I tried google, I tried some math quotation server, no luck. Any idea who the fuck said that? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ffejdraga 0 #2 May 10, 2006 hey, the closest I can find is HERE Scroll down... to the paragraph that begins "Further all that country..." Sounds like it is it, different words though. I hope this helps, jeff D-16906 Edited to add: Google Rules! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deea 0 #3 May 10, 2006 oh, awesome! you rock! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Merkur 1 #4 May 10, 2006 Hey Jeff, impressive result. How did you do that? Did you just put the whole phrase into google? Andrea, what was the original riddle? M.vSCR No.94 Don't dream your life - live your dream! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ffejdraga 0 #5 May 10, 2006 Thanks! No just part of it, key words that stand out....you can see the exact ones I used in the highlighted part, which comes from clicking "cached" after the result comes up. My favorite tool in the world is Google. Did you ever type in "failure" and hit search in google? jeff D-16906 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deea 0 #6 May 10, 2006 Quote No just part of it, key words that stand out....you can see the exact ones I used in the highlighted part, which comes from clicking "cached" after the result comes up. Yeah, I guess I was narrowing my search too much Quote Did you ever type in "failure" and hit search in google? yes, I've seen that before. Really funny shit! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deea 0 #7 May 10, 2006 Quote Andrea, what was the original riddle? M. you mean, the encrypted thing? it's kinda ugly, but... ok... here it goes... It's RSA cryptography. We have the letters of the alphabet set to numbers by beginning with 11 for A, 12 for B, etc... up to 36 for Z. Given the modulus 9897798435448670548862925351088919263527268729 and the encoding key 230179247954559324470852582380776939286366561, the message to decrypt was: 4236742615890285087883027706299355092597096111 1740449019201746973835067986398791992015157884 9366547413128592181967084544966703384352488540 8253897984175045252503621572780408219637960905 1858182717564376502741571643570093622485780002 9512365404704521792002106703122916349508641838 3132022529263914393919232531600090160591454875 5926638059910448998892142131466619071122680399 4473059127156745215037379675905407991077369064 Fun, isn't it? :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #8 May 10, 2006 Too large for my 007 Decoder Ring....My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
