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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
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Problem We gave Claude Fable 5.1 an open task: solve Sir Thomas Urquhart’s Cyphral Distich. It appears to have actually solved it, and the solution is quite embarrassing for humans in hindsight. At the end of Urquhart’s Logopandecteision is a cryptogram consisting of two lines of 32 numbers each, called the Cyphral Distich. A cryptogram is a short message deliberately encoded so it can’t be read w...
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