Chapter 33 Chapter Thirteen Numbers Hidden Mysteries

It was already seven o'clock in the evening.Judge Jarry Gates had been so engrossed in this nerve-wracking work that he had made no progress and had completely forgotten the time for meals and rest, when someone knocked on his door. It's just in time.The head of the angry judge is steaming, and in another hour, I'm afraid his brain will be roasted! The judge called in impatiently, the door opened and Manoel entered. The young doctor left his friends on the raft to decipher the incomprehensible document, and ran to see Judge Jarry Gates by himself.He wondered if the judges had had better luck deciphering the documents than they had.He came to ask the judge if at last he had discovered the scheme of the code.

The judge did not lose his temper when he saw Manoel.Because if a person is locked there and uses his brain, his brain will be cracked.He needed someone to talk to, especially if someone was as eager to unravel the mystery as he was.Manoel was such a man. Sir, Manoel asked as soon as he entered the door, first ask a question.Are you doing better than us? You sit first.Judge Jarry Gates stood up and began to stride up and down the room. you sit!If we both stand, you walk to one side and I walk to the other, I'm afraid my study is too small to accommodate us! Manoel sat down and asked the question again.

No!I am not luckier than you!The judge replied, I don't know much more.There is really nothing to tell you.However, there is one thing I can be sure of. Which point, sir, which point? The document does not use the usual symbols, but what is called a number in cryptography, or more precisely, it is written in numbers! Then, sir, replied Manoel, will it never be possible to read this document? It can be read, Judge Jarry Gates said, but only if a letter is always replaced by a fixed letter, for example, if the letter a always means p, and p always means x, otherwise it cannot! So, what about this document?

In this document, the concept of a letter varies with a code number, and it is this randomly chosen code number that controls the meaning of the letter!Thus, b may be denoted by K, and then become g, and then become m, n, or f, or some other letter! that in the present situation Under the current circumstances, I regret to tell you that there is no possibility of deciphering this cipher text! Impossible!Manoel exclaimed, no!We'll always find the password to the file, sir, it's a matter of life and death! Manoel was already on his feet, excited.The answer he had just received was so disappointing, but he refused to admit that the game was over.

But the judge made a gesture, sat down again, and asked in a calmer voice: Sir, he asked, first of all, who can make you think that the basis of this document is a number, or a number as you say? Listen, young man, replied Judge Jarry Gates, you're going to have to admit it in the future. The judge took the papers, put them before Manoel, showed him the calculations he had made, and said: At the beginning of processing this document, I will do what I should do, that is, deal with it in a logical way, and never act blindly. Our immortal analyst Ellen.Poe's rules, try to read this document!Well, the method that worked for him failed this time!

Failed!Manoel exclaimed. Yes, young man, I should have discovered at the outset that this search for an answer would not succeed.Indeed, a stronger man than I would not be so confused! God!cried Manoel, but I want to understand and I can't! Please pick up this document, Judge Jarry Gates continued, you only need to pay attention to the arrangement of letters, and then read the full text. Manoel complied. Don't you see something wrong with some letter combinations that are really weird?asked the judge. I found nothing, Manoel replied, I must have read the document from cover to cover no less than a hundred times.

Well, please just study the last paragraph.You know, that should be the outline of the whole thing.Didn't you notice something strange? No. However, there is one detail that absolutely and fully proves that the documents are arranged on the basis of a number. That's Manoel asking. That's, or rather those are two of the three h's that we see side by side. What Judge Jarry Gates said is indeed true and deserves attention.One is the 204th, 205th, and 206th letters of this paragraph, and the other is the 258th, 259th, and 260th letters, both of which are juxtaposed h.At first, this feature did not catch the judge's attention.

This proves?asked Manoel, wondering what inferences could be drawn from such a combination of letters. Proof, young man, that documents obey the law of one number!This first states that each letter changes according to the number of digits and the position of the digits! why is that? Because in any language, no word has three identical letters in a row. Hearing this argument, Manoel was quite moved, and he thought about it, but he was speechless. If I had noticed this sooner, the judge went on, I would have suffered a lot less and would not have started to have migraines that hurt from the top of my head to the back of my head!

But, sir, Manoel, feeling that the sliver of hope he had tried to keep alive was dying, asked, what do you mean by figures? It should be a number! You said it was a number, so let's just count it. Well, an example will make it clearer than any explanation. Judge Jarry Gates sat down at the table, picked up a piece of paper and a pencil, and said: Let us choose a sentence at random, Monsieur Manoel, for example: Lejuge Jarriquez est done d'un esprit tres ingenieux (Judge Jarriquez has a very clever mind). When I wrote this sentence, I wrote each letter separately, and it became this line: Le juge Jarriquez est dbue d'un esprit ingenieux.

After writing, the judge may have expressed an undoubted proposition for him, looking directly at Manoel and saying: Now, suppose I take a number at random and convert this natural word into a cryptographic form.Suppose this number consists of 3 digits, and these 3 digits are 4, 2 and 3.I arranged the number 423 in the sentence above, making numbers and letters correspond one by one, and repeating the arrangement until the end of the sentence.This will result in: Lejuge Jarriquez est doued'une sprittresingenieux 423423423423423423423423423423423423423423423 Well, Monsieur Manoel, and now representing each letter by the letter it falls back 4, 2 or 3 in the alphabet, it follows that:

L pushed back 4 is P e pushed back 2 is g j pushed back 3 is m u push back 4 is z g pushes back 2 is i Push back 3 e is h So on and so forth. If going back to the end of the alphabet is not enough, I start again at the first letter of the alphabet.For example, the last letter of my name is z, and the number below it is 3.However, the alphabet has no more letters after z, so I start counting again from the letter a, so that: Pushing z back three times is c. This shows that when I finish calculating the cryptographic system under the influence of the number 423, don’t forget that this number is just a random choice. The sentence just now was replaced by this sentence: Pg mzih ncuvktzgciux hqyl fyr gvttly vuiu lrihrkhzz. Take a good look at this sentence, young man, isn't it exactly the same as the sentence in the document we studied?So, what is the conclusion?That is, if the meaning of a letter is determined by the number randomly arranged below it, then the letter represented by the code letter is not static.Thus, in this sentence, the first e is represented by g, but the second e is represented by h, the third e is represented by g, and the fourth e is represented by i; m is equivalent to the first j, and n is equivalent to the second j, the two r in my name, the first is represented by u, and the second is represented by v; the t in the word est becomes n, and the word esprit t in becomes y, but t in ires becomes v.You should understand now that if you don't know the number 423, you can't read these lines.Therefore, since we do not know which numerals are used in this document, we cannot decipher it! Hearing the judge speak so eloquently, Manoel first lowered his head, then raised his head again: No, he cried, no, sir!I will not give up hope and will definitely find out this number! We may be able to do it, Judge Jarry Gates replied, but only if the words in the document are written separately! Why? That's how I reasoned, young man.It's pretty safe to say that the last paragraph of this document summarizes the previous paragraphs, isn't it?Well, I'm sure there will be Joam in the last paragraph.Dacosta's name.In this way, if each line is divided into words to write, word by word test I mean a word consisting of seven letters like Dacosta (Dacosta) will not fail to find out the decryption number of the file. Would you please explain to me how it should be done, sir.Asked Manoel, perhaps he saw a last ray of hope. It couldn't be easier, Judge Jarry Gates replied.For example, if you will, take one word in the sentence I just wrote, my last name.In the cipher it is replaced by this weird string of letters: ncuvktzgc.Well, now arrange these letters in a vertical column, and then list the letters in my surname, and compare the order of the two in the alphabet to get the following formula: There are 4 letters between n and j, There are 2 letters between c and a There are 3 letters between u and r There are 4 letters between v and r There are 2 letters between k and i 3 letters between t and q There are 4 letters between z and u There are 2 letters between g and e There are 3 letters between c and z However, how is a column of numbers obtained by such a simple operation combined?All you see are the numbers 423423423, etc., which means the number 423 repeated many times. right!That's right!Manoel replied. In this way, you can understand that in this way, the fake letters can be pushed forward to get the real letters according to the order of the alphabet, instead of the real letters can be pushed back to get the fake letters.I found the number easily, and it was the number I had chosen as the clue to the code! Well, sir, cried Manoel, if that is the case, if the last paragraph bears the surname D'Acosta, we have only to take each letter in these lines as the seven letters that make up the surname. First, it should be able to It is possible, Judge Jarry Gates replied, but on one condition! What conditions? This requires that the first digit of the number be placed just below the first letter of the word Dacosta, and you will agree with me that this is absolutely impossible! Daring!Manoel felt that even his last hope had been shattered in the face of his helplessness. Maybe it's just a matter of luck.Judge Jarry Gates shook his head and continued, but such research cannot be left to chance! But, after all, asked Manoel, can't we just happen to find this number? That amount, cried Judge Jarry Gates, that amount!But how many numbers does it consist of?Is it two, three, four, nine, or ten?Is this number composed of different numbers, or are some numbers repeated many times?Young man, you know what?Using ten numbers without repetition, a total of 3,268,000 different numbers can be formed. If several numbers are repeated, how many combinations of these millions of numbers will increase?Did you know that there are 525,600 minutes in a year, and even if you experiment with one number per minute, it will take more than six years. If each experiment takes an hour, you have to spend three Centuries of time!no!You are asking for the impossible! The impossibility, sir, replied Manoel, is that the righteous are condemned to death, and it is Joam.Dacosta will be ruined, and you already have the physical evidence to prove his innocence, which is impossible! ah!Young man, cried Judge Jarry Gates, after all who told you that Torres wasn't lying, that he really had the document written by the murderer, is this page that document?It really concerns Joam.Da Costa? Who said that!Manoel repeated. He buried his head between his hands. True enough, there's nothing conclusively proving that this document involves a diamond heist.There's not even a hint that it's not nonsense, a fake document created by Torres himself trying to sell it as the real thing! It's all right, Mr. Manoel, Judge Jarry Gates stands up: It's all right!No matter what this document is about, I will not give up finding out the password number!After all, this is also a word game! At this, Manoel rose to take his leave of the judge, and returned to the raft with more despair than he had come.