Cryptogram Analyzer

This application was created to offer you the possibility to solve cryptograms within seconds.
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Publisher Name:
  • Daniel Parrott
  • Operating Systems:
  • Windows All
  • File Size:
  • 567 KB

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Cryptogram Analyzer Description

Most people are familiar with cryptograms in some form or another; the daily newspaper often has a section devoted to them. However, only a handful of people are really any good at solving them. And it usually takes them some time to do so. Yet, they find the process of substituting one character for this or that character to be quite exciting, as they gradually realize that they are close to discovering what hidden meaning within the puzzle. Computers are quite good when it comes to calculating numbers and performing mathematical operations. However, numbers are one thing - aren't English phrases quite another? Actually, the answer is no. Computers understand characters in a system called ASCII. This system is a means to represent the alphabet and many other characters numerically. Thus, the letter 'A' is taken to mean the number 65, the letter 'B' as 66, the letter 'C' as 67, and ad infinitum. These are simply the upper-case characters. The computer also differentiates between case, so lower-case 'a' is 97. Now that characters can be represented as numbers, we can see that the computer is able to perform character substitution just like humans are able to do so. The trick is in finding out which characters ought to be substituted for another, and then determining if the substitutions actually make any sense.


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