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Sunday, April 19, 2009
The Sunday comics say that... Gus is pretty smart
At the breakfast table this morning, Gus picked up the comics, read Foxtrot (one of our favorites), adn about 2 minutes later had solved the "secret" message on top. Uh-h-h-h, I didn't even think it could be solved.
Almost all of the letters' values are based on knowing basic arithmetic or alegebra. The only ones I couldn't solve right away were the sin / cos ones because I don't remember any trig, but at a certain point it is just a basic elimination problem.
But then, my friend Jeff and I used to make up these sorts of codes during church when we were in elementary school and pass notes to each other that way. We were dorks. =)
At the breakfast table this morning, Gus picked up the comics, read Foxtrot (one of our favorites), adn about 2 minutes later had solved the "secret" message on top. Uh-h-h-h, I didn't even think it could be solved.
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Almost all of the letters' values are based on knowing basic arithmetic or alegebra. The only ones I couldn't solve right away were the sin / cos ones because I don't remember any trig, but at a certain point it is just a basic elimination problem.
But then, my friend Jeff and I used to make up these sorts of codes during church when we were in elementary school and pass notes to each other that way. We were dorks. =)
Yes, it can be solved knowing basic algebra and trig ,but I sure don't remember much of it.
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