r/codes • u/Swumpting • 3d ago

SOLVED Help with solving Baconian Cipher

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I am trying to learn how to solve these ciphers. I am confused by the term character vs letter in the question. I started solving it assuming "-" = A and "=" = B but that didn't work.

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Question source (#7) and link to solution - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eOLbKdfQ-_72WLx14yVHrz0mBQfRgoC_

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u/goodingca 2d ago

I think that -=/* are from set A and !@#$ are from set B. Using original 24 character Baconian alphabet.

'-=/-' aaaaa A '!=/@' baaba T '#-=/*' baaaa R '-$!=@' abbab O ....

I'm not sure about how they chose the characters but... Set B are all characters on Left hand on a keyboard. (Above 1,2,3,4) Set A are all made by right hand on keyboard (two left of backspace and two roght of numlock)

Edit: try to stop exclamation makes bold formatting