Math Is Fun Forum

GWMorris

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Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 4

Another new arrival!

Hi all,

I found this forum when searching around for codes and ciphers, but I have always been mathematically inclined. In high school I did my best to take as much math as they'd let me, and always made A+ on everything. Algebra & algebra II, geometry, trig and I wanted to try a little calculus but couldn't as I had to make up TWO history classes to graduate! I kept failing history as I felt it a waste of time when I could be learning more math and science, which I could ace easily.

Even as a young kid, I was fascinated by things like square roots, and eventually started learning more about codes, ciphers and encryption which became almost an obsession. One day, I was fooling around with some things and I got an idea for a "code" of sorts that would be simple for me to read without any tables or machines, but if you knew nothing about it you didn't stand much chance of figuring it out.

Now, some 40 years later I STILL use it to make private notes and such without having to hide them, and I had even thought of running a contest just to see how much work it would be to crack it. My plan was to charge a fee to join, and whoever got it first would win back their entry and most of everybody else's. I'm sure I'd need to use some of it for promotion and publication or something. I'd release a phrase or sentence and allow a certain amount of time. If nobody got it, I'd release a little more (like most, it's easier to crack the more of it you have!), and so on until someone got it. It's pretty good, but I'm sure somebody would crack it soon. Funny thing is, the whole code came to me when thinking about other ways to represent English and I was actually looking for ways to improve on what we have (which, you must admit, is a mess!).

Well, that's me in a nutshell. I'll be popping in from time to time!

bobbym

bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

Registered: 2009-04-12

Posts: 109,606

Re: Another new arrival!

Hi;

Welcome to the forum!

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

Jai Ganesh

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Re: Another new arrival!

Hi GWMorris,

Welcome to the forum!

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

anonimnystefy

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From: Harlan's World

Registered: 2011-05-23

Posts: 16,049

Re: Another new arrival!

hi GWMorris

welcome to the forum!

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“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

Posts: 10,199

Re: Another new arrival!

hi GWMorris,

Welcome! 

Bob

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Children are not defined by school ...........The Fonz
You cannot teach a man anything;  you can only help him find it within himself..........Galileo Galilei
Sometimes I deliberately make mistakes, just to test you!  …………….Bob