[ale] Hmm. I'll bet a bunch of geeks are here too

[James Sumners]

ROT13 is merely adding 13 to the character. I.E. 'A' = 'M'. I believe
Julius Caesar used ROT3 to encode his battle messages. So, the concept
is anything but new.

A quick search verifies that it was indeed ROT3 --
http://www.answers.com/topic/caesar-cipher

On 7/11/07, Steve Brown <braino420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/11/07, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
> > Also an 84. Used my newsreader for the ROT13, the converter in my hex
> > editor for the ASCII, and did the binary in my head. Think what hurt me
> > the most is not being a programmer. Have only played with a handful of
> > languages and two of them were not even listed.
> >
> >
> I wasn't sure what ROT13 was at first, but once I figured out they match
> 1-to-1, I just looked for similarities between the the most occurring
> character: r, and only one of the answers has a letter that occurs as many
> times. ***spoiler*** The funny thing is that I didn't know the picture was
> Seymour Cray, but I knew the computer was a Cray Supercomputer. :P
>
> -Steve B


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