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Finding patterns in seemingly random sets of data is what cryptography is all about. Sometimes finding the questions may be harder than answering them! See if you can figure out what the heck we are talking about.
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The multiple rollers of a coding machine are each embossed with the 26 letters and wrapped in order similar to an odometer.
ZAY
ABZ
BCA

With the rollers displaying the message:
"FOUR IS A SQUARE",

each roller position is advanced by the value of successive digits of the irrational √2 to yield:
"GSVV KT D XWWDYH".

If the rollers are locked as one cylinder and rotated through the display window one may view 25 other encryptions.
Using a related but not identical process, and just the values of Π (= 3.141592), the following is the encrypted result:
"PAZYPMEPTUNYRXEWHFGNJRQMK".

Determine the original phrase.

Notes:
1. Spaces do not exist on the machine and are provided here (above example)for readability.
2. If it helps, each vowel occurs at least once.
3. [√2 = 1.41421356237]
(No Solution Yet, 4 Comments) Submitted on 2008-08-30 by brianjn   
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