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cryptarithm

1/20/2022

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Alexander (8) likes cryptography and spies. Cryptography is a means of communication that allows only the sender and recipient of a message to view its contents. The term is derived from the Greek word kryptos, which means hidden. If a message is intercepted by a third party who has everything needed to decrypt the message, the code is broken.

Named after Julius Caesar, who used a code for his military messages, the Caesar cypher was simple, yet it took years to break. All you do is substitute each letter in the alphabet by shifting it right or left by a specific number of letters.

A cryptarithm is a mathematical cypher that Alexander learned today. You turn any addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problem into a cryptarithm by replacing letters with numbers.

Here is a cryptarithm for SEND MORE MONEY. Imagine yourself to be a spy and you need more money.

Rules: the only digits allowed are 0 – 9 with one carry forward. A carry forward is what happens when you add numbers with digits in the ones, tens, hundreds place, etcetera, that result in the number 10 or larger.

Set up this way:
    SEND
+ MORE
 MONEY

Now turn the letters into numbers, column by column (an X on the arrow means wrong move):
 
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4 Comments
Josef Ketzer
1/28/2022 10:01:54 am

Strange coincidence: The very day I read this (i. e. today), I played a cryptographic learning play with one of my students (Elementary, 10 years).

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Robert E. Dunn link
1/28/2022 11:01:50 am

Send me the cryptographic learning play, Joe.

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Josef Ketzer
1/28/2022 01:03:05 pm

Okay, I am going to do this, but this play is very simple, and of course it's in German.

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Robert E. Dunn link
1/28/2022 01:35:03 pm

okay




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