1. Contest #3 Expert
- Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Apr 06, 2002
- 422 views
petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > you really ought to have > bit the bullet and picked > just one answer (he says, ducking Without grammar-aware code, picking one answer would have been at worst a random determination and at best a "best guess" (using letter-frequency tables, etc.). The contest was for a deciphering program. My program fits that bill perfectly. Now, maybe Kat could dress it up with some grammar-recognition that would allow it to recognize non-sensical vs. sensible sentences, but that was beyond the scope of the contest. The CIA would never leave this kind of thing to a PC anyway (not with today's technology)... they would want all possible options and then hand that list to a human for the final filtering. > From what has happened to both you and me, I begin to think the > competition should have allowed a chance to bug fix, especially > looking at one of the quotes Rob himself picked! I agree that one round of modifications might've done some real good regarding speed, but I doubt it would have changed the placement results. I've got a 100% result on all 5 ciphers in a matter of seconds (depending on PC :) ). > Anyway, congratulations, a fine program sir. Thanks, Pete. Here's some test ciphers (just for fun)... How do you do with these: Zag, fro, ion i flagstone. or this: immigrant whisk pisces an beds oily -ck
2. Re: Contest #3 Expert
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Apr 06, 2002
- 423 views
You, sir, are a scoundrel. attacking heard parlor in your jams Ugh. maybe not. Pete
3. Re: Contest #3 Expert
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Apr 07, 2002
- 417 views
On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 01:08:25 +0000, "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> wrote: >petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk wrote: >> attacking heard parlor in your jams >LOL! Very close!!! :) finally got it: attacking pearl harbor in four days