From today's New York Times: November 4, 2002 A New Cryptography Uses the Quirks of Photon Streams By JOHN MARKOFF The quirky world of quantum physics, where...
There are 9 silver balls, they all look identical. * of them are the same weight, the ninth is either lighter or heavier than the others. You have a pair of...
Danny, See the attached solution in the Word document. Cheers Clive ... From: DJ [mailto:gameswarrior@...] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:23 PM To:...
Danny, Somehow my attachment got stripped, so here is the solution embedded in ... Problem: There are 9 silver balls, and they all look identical. Eight of...
Haha Yes correct, ok it took me about 30mins on a scrap of paper and then I didnt produce such a well formulated proof - hey I couldnt even word the question ...
Danny, The key is segmenting what information you can get from each level of testing, and grouping it properly. Given an infinite number of available balance...
Hello DJ ... Although there are replies, I have not read them yet. EASY PEASY! Oh, I suspect the * is actually an 8 - right? ;-) Regards -- Women vs. Beer:...
Andrew Bruno
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Nov 7, 2002 7:24 am
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Hello DJ ... This was the original question: There are 9 silver balls, they all look identical. 8 of them are the same weight, the ninth is either lighter or...
Andrew Bruno
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Nov 7, 2002 7:28 am
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Have you all seen www.timehunt.com? It's a beautiful puzzle site, mostly using flash and shockwave, with an ultimate prize for whoever solves all the puzzles....
Can anyone tell me whether recent developments in the synthesis of nanotubes holds any possibility of creating networks capable of sending single photons for...
The same problem can be done with 12 balls and still 3 uses of the balance scale. Solution is available if necessary. ... There are 7 messages in this issue. ...
chris
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Nov 18, 2002 5:15 pm
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Hello, I have a problem with hillclimbers when the plain text is short. My optimization is based on frequency distributions obtained from large English texts...
... If you're confident that you've gone as far as you can with n-graphs (my favorite is tetragraphs drawn from a large text base), then you might try...
The following is an extract from the on-line version of the November 2002 issue of "IQ", the house-magazine of "QinetiQ" (sic), formally "DERA", in the UK. ...
Jim, thank you for your feedback. I will try the word method with words stored in a tree. My previous attempts were not very successful, because I only listed...
Folks, For my encryption class, I have to figure out what the following cipher means. It seems like it is the Freemasons Cipher , but a few of the symbols are...
don't help this kid. he is a scam artist. that "cipher" is not from his "encryption class" at all. its a part of a contest that is worth $100,000, and this...
OK HERES THE REAL PUZZLE 12 BALLS ONE OF A DIFFERENT WEIGHT ( MAYBE HEAVY, MAYBE LIGHT) THREE WEIGHINGS. [SOLVABLE] CHRIS ... this which ... find the...
TCB friends: While I know a number of you in this group are already members, I would urge the rest of you to consider membership in the American Cryptogram...
... I thought about this a while ago and the thing that discouraged me was having to pay with a US cheque. It probably doubles the cost from the UK, plus it...
... Two ways around this exepense are to send cash in U.S. dollars (probably should do that by registered mail) or to use an international postal money order....
Having just seen the answer posted on their website and the 'how it was done' I am a little confused and feel short changed. Would anyone on here like to try...
... anyone ... What the website says is that this is a simple substitution cipher with double letters shown as one letter in some words and single letters...
Peter John Wescome, Trustee, Bletchley Park Trust Will present a slide lecture on the breaking fo Enigma on Thursday, February 6, 2003, noon. This will be at...
Cryptography A quantum leap over short distances. By Martin LaMonica January 13, 2003 Scientists have long tantalized the computer industry with the unbridled...
<<Master Key Copying Revealed January 23, 2003 By JOHN SCHWARTZ A security researcher has revealed a vulnerability in many locks that lets someone take any key...
Surely somethign this short must have multiple solutions DJ ... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful....
You're welcome to offer another soultion. Mine is a simple Caesar shift of the original ciphertext. And the Latin expression is attributed to Francis Bacon...
