Re: Seriation

On 10/02/2025 23:44, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
 

On 04/02/2025 01:31, David Entwistle wrote:

...

Yes, as I recall, and as a rather sloppy adversary unaware of your
implementation, my character set ran from char(33) ! to char(126) ~. I
think it was the gap between char(95) _ and char(97) a which caused me the
most trouble. char(96) is top left on a QWERTY keyboard. I never use it,
but it gets used as an apostrophe in some text on the web. As a result
some of my checks failed to do what I expected and I didn't feel confident
posting SCOS-based ciphers.

>
Well, blow moi down with a feather! I had no idea!

 I think you have just forgotten.  It was brought up at the time (I have
a post of 7th Dec 2021 about it).

Then I have indeed just forgotten. Unfortunately, my Deja News doesn't cover the period in question, so I can't check, but I have no reason to doubt you.
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