{"id":548,"date":"2005-04-01T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T18:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=548"},"modified":"2005-04-01T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2005-04-01T18:56:41","slug":"coded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/04\/01\/coded\/","title":{"rendered":"Coded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these directions:<\/p>\n<p>Select any three digit number such that the hundreds digit is at least two greater than the units digit. (For example: 672) Call this number w.<br \/>\nReverse the digits of w. (For example: 276)  Call this number x.<br \/>\nSubtract x from w. Call this remainder y.<br \/>\nReverse the digits of y.  Call this number z.<br \/>\nAdd y and z.<br \/>\nMultiply the sum of y and z by 100,000.<br \/>\nFrom the product obtained in the last step, subtract 8,685,432.<\/p>\n<p>This number is the final answer. However, it is in code. To produce the message, substitute a letter for each digit according to the following key:<\/p>\n<p>0\t&#8211;\to<br \/>\n1\t&#8211;\tl<br \/>\n2\t&#8211;\tf<br \/>\n3\t&#8211;\tm<br \/>\n4\t&#8211;\ti<br \/>\n5\t&#8211;\tr<br \/>\n6\t&#8211;\tp<br \/>\n7\t&#8211;\tw<br \/>\n8\t&#8211;\ta<br \/>\n9\t&#8211;\tg<\/p>\n<p>If your work is correct, you should be able to read the decoded message.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to shinydome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow these directions: Select any three digit number such that the hundreds digit is at least two greater than the units digit. (For example: 672) Call this number w. Reverse the digits of w. (For example: 276) Call this number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/04\/01\/coded\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}