OT: Cryptography puzzle
David Fraser
davidf at sjsoft.com
Wed Jun 2 03:52:58 EDT 2004
Greg Ewing wrote:
> Christian Gudrian wrote:
>
>> And what about the 'ss' in 'ssfd'? I don't know many languages that
>> allow
>> words to start with two identical letters.
>
>
> Obviously it's "my hovercraft is full of eels" with
> several spelling mistakes.
>
The attached program shows that there is no one-to-one mapping of
characters that will result in this string matching words from
/usr/share/dict/words (at least on my machine)
Could be faster/neater/more elegant but there you go
David
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