A101110 First Beale cipher.

71, 194, 38, 1701, 89, 76, 11, 83, 1629, 48, 94, 63, 132, 16, 111, 95, 84, 341, 975, 14, 40, 64, 27, 81, 139, 213, 63, 90, 1120, 8, 15, 3, 126, 2018, 40, 74, 758, 485, 604, 230, 436, 664, 582, 150, 251, 284, 308, 231, 124, 211, 486, 225, 401, 370, 11, 101, 305

Offset

1,1

Comments

For over 100 years this has been a nondecrypted message. Only the second Beale cipher has been solved.

In addition to numbered pages cited in Hoffman's book (with the three ciphers quoted in their entirety on pages 63 - 66), the page before the title page of the 1988 edition gives the first five terms of the first cipher with the teaser "Will Jeff Beale's treasure ever be found?" - Alonso del Arte, Mar 10 2007

References

Paul Hoffman, Archimedes' Revenge: The Joys and Perils of Mathematics. New York: Fawcett Crest (1988): 58 - 77.

Simon Singh, The Code Book, The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography, Fourth Estate, London 1999.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..57.

Beale Treasure Center, Beale Papers

Lee Krystek, The Beale Cryptograms

Crossrefs

Cf. A101111, A101112.

Sequence in context: A174370 A174454 A142808 * A142893 A245945 A166255

Adjacent sequences: A101107 A101108 A101109 * A101111 A101112 A101113

Keyword

fini,nonn

Author

Volker Schmitt (clamsi(AT)gmx.net), Dec 01 2004

Status

approved