Re:Codebreaker Cracks 135 Year Old Message [video]
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:59AM
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> The dew point indicator words are on page 41 of the handbook linked by the parent.
My mistake. Pages 20-30 are all blank; I figured that was the end of the document.
I'm not sure why the dewpoint indicators had to be arbitrary, rather than using the same scheme. Maybe it was a way of providing some robustness because fields could occupy variable numbers of words, so an identifiable dew-point word would help to mark a specific field in the report.