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Crypto Contest!!! (with hint) by Kickstart2002-03-08 06:59:07
  Well... by beez2002-03-08 07:27:45
    **This References His Other Hint!!!!** by stoutman_20012002-03-08 13:53:39
      Guess what? by stoutman_20012002-03-08 13:59:21
        Other way round (also references the other hint) by Stavros 2002-03-08 15:04:00
Most lines start with 1. Only two lines start with 0, and they're the two lines that consist of only 0.

Also, it doesn't look quite like binary, except for the fact that it's zeroes and ones. There are lots of large groups of 0s clustered together, and the 1s seem to occur in groups as well. Maybe the number of 1s in a group is significant? Perhaps if you write down the number of 1s in each group of 1s, in order... hmmm, 2 2 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 1 2 ... OK that's going nowhere.

I dunno... if each line is neither a word nor a character, then there must be some other reason the lines are of different lengths. I noticed that the maximum length of a line is 15 characters, and 15 is the highest number representable in four bits. So if you write the line lengths down in binary, you get 1111 1110 0110 1101 0111 0100 1111 ... but I don't see a pattern. Incidentally, if you're looking for a way to map four bit numbers to letters, morse code might be worth a look, although it's doubtful, as there are 16 combinations of four-bit numbers, and 26 letters in the alphabet. But if you can somehow find a way of differentiating between, say, 1 and 0001 (maybe something like 0000 could represent the end of a morse letter?), it's a possibility.
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          See my post; by stoutman_20012006-11-19 12:55:59
            Ohhh, *those* lines. D'oh! (n/t) by Stavros2002-03-08 15:42:21

 

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