Here is a challenge response, probably not the one you intended. (It's a bit political).
for my $p ( [529,199,442,183,393],[174,603,481,399,664],[483,139,314,5 +9] ) {
Here is the code I used to probe for the 10-letter parts. The code for the 8-letter part is similar. Given an initial guess for the first 6 letters, it solves 5 equations in 5 unknowns and then uses the coefficients to generate the rest. The user has to pick through the junk to find a meaningful line.
use strict; my $probe = $ARGV[0]; print "probing for $probe\n"; our @probes = split //,$probe; undef $/; our $data = lc <DATA> . "jkwy" x 10; $data =~ s/(\015|\012)+/ /g; # Needed to solve newline mismatches our @letter = split //, $data; sub poleval { my ($x, $r) = (shift, 0); $r = ( $r * $x + $_ ) % 683 for @_; $r; } sub get_letter { my $val = shift; return grep { $letter[$_] eq $val } 0..$#letter; } my @p0 = get_letter($probes[0]); my @p1 = get_letter($probes[1]); my @p2 = get_letter($probes[2]); my @p3 = get_letter($probes[3]); my @p4 = get_letter($probes[4]); my $p5 = $probes[5]; my $total = scalar(@p0)*scalar(@p1)*scalar(@p2) *scalar(@p3)*scalar(@p4); print "Estimated $total count\n"; my $count = $#letter; my $comb = 0; my ($a, $b, $c, $d, $e, $r, $x, $y, $z, $q, $ap, $bp, $cp); my ($app, $bpp); my ($x0, $x1, $x2, $x3, $x4, $x5, $x6, $x7, $x8, $x9); for $a (@p0) { for $b (@p1) { for $c (@p2) { $ap = ($c - $a) - 2*($b - $a); for $d (@p3) { $bp = ($d - $a) - 3*($b - $a); for $e (@p4) { $cp = ($e - $a) - 4*($b - $a); $app = ($bp - 3*$ap); $bpp = ($cp - 6*$ap); # 370 is the inverse of 24 mod 683. $r = (370*($bpp - 4*$app)) % 683; # 114 is the inverse of 6 mod 683. $x = (114*($app - 36*$r)) % 683; # 342 is the inverse of 2 mod 683. $y = (342*($ap - 14*$r - 6*$x)) % 683; $z = ($b - $a - $r - $x - $y) % 683; $x5 = poleval(5,$r,$x,$y,$z,$a); next if $x5 > $count; next if ($letter[$x5] ne $p5); $x6 = poleval(6,$r,$x,$y,$z,$a); next if $x6 > $count; $x7 = poleval(7,$r,$x,$y,$z,$a); next if $x7 > $count; $x8 = poleval(8,$r,$x,$y,$z,$a); next if $x8 > $count; $x9 = poleval(9,$r,$x,$y,$z,$a); next if $x9 > $count; print "possible at $r, $x, $y, $z, $a: "; print $probes[0],$probes[1],$probes[2],$probes[3]; print $probes[4],$letter[$x5],$letter[$x6],$letter[$x7]; print $letter[$x8],$letter[$x9],"\n"; } } } } } __DATA__ Lupus et agnus Ad rivum eundem lupus et agnus venerant, siti compulsi. Superior stabat lupus, longeque inferior agnus. Tunc fauce improba latro incitatus iurgii causam intulit; 'Cur' inquit 'turbulentam fecisti mihi aquam bibenti?' Laniger contra timens 'Qui possum, quaeso, facere quod quereris, lupe? A te decurrit ad meos haustus liquor'. Repulsus ille veritatis viribus 'Ante hos sex menses male' ait 'dixisti mihi'. Respondit agnus 'Equidem natus non eram'. 'Pater hercle tuus' ille inquit 'male dixit mihi'; atque ita correptum lacerat iniusta nece. Haec propter illos scripta est homines fabula qui fictis causis innocentes opprimunt.

Update: Here are some alternate coordinates for the original moral.

492, 258, 236, 558, 276: any excuse 226, 640, 286, 616, 465: any excuse 202, 487, 474, 15, 680: will serve 323, 527, 255, 84: a tyrant 501, 663, 511, 136: a tyrant 634, 447, 626, 165: a tyrant 107, 489, 228, 200: a tyrant 61, 535, 38, 216: a tyrant 625, 232, 416, 269: a tyrant 148, 199, 463, 303: a tyrant 380, 162, 314, 303: a tyrant 255, 535, 86, 326: a tyrant 610, 425, 390, 361: a tyrant 88, 470, 603, 458: a tyrant 645, 617, 159, 458: a tyrant 350, 669, 352, 514: a tyrant 242, 115, 22, 535: a tyrant 394, 46, 227, 535: a tyrant 307, 18, 392, 596: a tyrant

In reply to Re: Lupus et Agnus by tall_man
in thread Lupus et Agnus by abell

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