Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy

Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy by gus_massa on Friday November 01, 2024 @07:34PM (#42022642)

Someone downvoted this, but it's a rot13 version of the correct answer. (A very nice a answer, by the way.)

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Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy by quesera on Friday November 01, 2024 @11:12PM (#42023789)

In case rot13 doesn't come naturally:

  alias rot13="tr 'A-Za-z' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m'"
  echo "Lbh arrq fvk phgf orpnhfr lbh arrq gb rkcbfr rirel snpr bs gur prageny phor." | rot13

I wish I had Mr Gardener's zero-kerf saw blades in my shop!

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Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy by yen223 on Saturday November 02, 2024 @08:23AM (#42025972)

Saying "Please decode this ..." to Claude worked perfectly.

ChatGPT 4o mini kept getting one of the words wrong, funnily enough

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Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy by madcaptenor on Saturday November 02, 2024 @12:32PM (#42027400)

I’m surprised by this - wouldn’t have expected there to be enough rot13 in the training data.

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Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy by Jtsummers on Saturday November 02, 2024 @01:30PM (#42027780)

rot13 was commonly used on forums and Usenet to avoid spoilers for a very long time. As forums got the equivalent of spoiler tags or folding or whatever to hide content that changed, and of course Usenet fell out of common use a while back.

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Re:Math and Puzzle Fans Find Magic in Martin Gardner's Legacy by madcaptenor on Saturday November 02, 2024 @12:31PM (#42027395)

rot13.com also works, but this is better.

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