mistake in question 59

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sameer2
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mistake in question 59

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i feel like that q59 has a mistake in it.. there is a perion '.' missing in the encrypted text, initially i got the answer wrong but when i added, i think 42, which is the ASCII order of a period i got the right answer.. did anybody experience something like this??
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Re: mistake in question 59

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No. Your program is probably not reading/decrypting each ASCII value.
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Re: mistake in question 59

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Can you define what "common english words" means? Does that include whitespaces, or punctuation, or any other characters outside of the [a-z] and [A-Z] range between the words?
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Does that include whitespaces, or punctuation, or any other characters outside of the [a-z] and [A-Z] range between the words?
Yes. Once decrypted, it should read as a normal text if you display it on the screen.
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