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2.3B Prime Factorisation Cryptography (Ans)

This document discusses cryptography and prime factorization. It provides a code where each letter is represented by a prime number. It then presents an encoded message using this code and asks the reader to decipher it.

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2.3B Prime Factorisation Cryptography (Ans)

This document discusses cryptography and prime factorization. It provides a code where each letter is represented by a prime number. It then presents an encoded message using this code and asks the reader to decipher it.

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Cryptography
Cryptography is the study of secret codes. Prime Factorisation is very important to
people who try to make (or break) secret codes based on numbers.

That is because factoring very large numbers is very hard, and can take computers a
long time to do.

Your task is to decipher the message, using your knowledge of factor trees.

Each letter of the code is represented by a prime number as shown below.

The code is:


a = 17 h = 23 s = 43
b = 11 i = 31 t=5
c = 13 l = 29 w=2
d=3 n = 41 y = 37
e=7 o = 19

The message reads:

3910 17157 805 0 27047 95 805 8?


115661 11165

The bold numbers are left as numbers in the final message.


Cryptography
The code is:
a = 17 h = 23 s = 43
b = 11 i = 31 t=5
c = 13 l = 29 w=2
d=3 n = 41 y = 37
e=7 o = 19
The
message reads:

3910 17157 805 0 27047 95 805 8?

wtah deos teh ays to teh


what does the say to the

115661 11165

ecin tebl
nice belt

What does the 0 say to the 8?


Nice belt.

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