Most science fiction fans know the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything."
The elemental answer is of course Molybdenum; discovered in 1781
For a while I've been thinking about writing things in code, and one code I had played with when I was younger was using the periodic table of elements. I was talking yesterday with a friend about it and wondering how hard it would be to decode. He suggested using the yet unnamed, created in a lab, elements as spaces, so that 117 would be a space instead of Uus as letters. I'm not sure if that's entirely required.
See if you can decode the following:
notes:
1) due to the nature of the periodic table, some letters come only in pairs, and some (J & Q) do not exist.
2) no punctuation is included
421622 215363758 95362287 995716 1910274 9063 957167468 228 9063 923221018568 1992992287 89 326 9063 9228236834 9560 63236839904932 5316 42
As I was typing up the above, I thought of an easier code to write, and possibly more difficult to decrypt.
The code above uses, where it can, double letter combinations, such that the phrase "I am gay" would be: 53 95 3139
An alternate would be where only the first letter of the element is used, that could give multiple codes for the same phrase. Taking "I am gay" you can choose from:
I = 49, 53 or 77
a = 13, 18, 33, 47, 79, 85, 89 or 95
m = 12, 25, 43, 101 or 109
g = 31, 32 or 64
a = 13, 18, 33, 47, 79, 85, 89 or 95 (why not choose a different number than before!?)
y = 39
Total of 2880 different possible combinations for that phrase. 24 for just "gay"
Now try this one (first letters only):
349963 741314 57531968 18 5854 7626 611787133229916 397692 763236837 3610874 7424743 3976924499 318112879 326352
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