A friend gave me a puzzle that he is trying to solve and I haven't even began to figure it out and neither has he. It's going to drive me crazy not knowing what the solution is so if anybody has any clues that would be great. I tried to google the answer after trying to solve it for a while but only found a website where they ask the question. So....
How would you get this To be or not to be From this 3 7 25438 819 7 158
looks like fun, the site I found was presumably the same as the one you had where only a handful of people seem to have solved it. So as not to spoil other peoples fun I wonder if a solution was found here that it could be hinted at but not posted directly?
The first thing I thought of was that I had seen it written as '2b||!2b', not sure if that has anything to do with it though.
I see 13 letters in 'to be or not to be' but only 6 symbols used. The code has 6 groups of letters although it is a bit of a staller that 25438 won't divide by 4...
I did wonder, and the site that offers this problem has a code to be solved with 54 groups of numbers. Must be something else then... I'm trying to squeeze some prime numbers in there at the moment.
I'd guesss that e=2 and b=79, that letters appearing more frequently in english are assigned to smaller primes, and that letters in each number are presented in alphabetical order
It looks like the letter order used was close to linotype order with a few minor changes. It may be easier to recognize the solution if you speak Bantu
factorizing the numbers and using the code you proposed appears to produces unintelligible text. for example "365 6 23 365" and "87" has an awful lot of t's clustered together. but ofcourse i could be wrong.
since the lesser primes are most common i imagine 2,3 and 7 to be the most commonly used alphabets.
