Math Logic

Question :
What are 'Cryptograms' ?

Answer :
Cryptograms are mathematical puzzles which are associated with letters of the alphabet and the digits.
In simple cryptogram each letter is replaced by one of the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and n digit is represented by more than one letter.
Cryptograms were not originally created for entertainment purposes.

In the Spartan military in fifth century B.C, this code consisted of a staff around which a strip of paper was wrapped without overlapping. A message was written on the paper, which was then unwrapped and sent on its way. The message could only be correctly decoded with the right diameter of stick.

Julius Caesar invented the first substitution cypher, one which still bears his name.

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