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| - | Long ago, in ancient Rome, Julius Caesar is said to have used simple ciphers | ||
| - | to encrypt messages that he wanted to stay secret. | ||
| - | The following problems are based on a modified version of this same cipher. | ||
| - | Caesar started by writing out the alphabet and pairing each letter to a number that would represent it. | ||
| - | One such pairing is | ||
| - | $$ | ||
| - | \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|} | ||
| - | a& | ||
| - | 1& | ||
| - | \end{array}. | ||
| - | $$ | ||