19-03-2019, 02:25 AM
(19-03-2019, 01:49 AM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I wish I had time to decipherDon's code, but I pop in, scan-read, blast a quick note, and then I have to run until the next moment when I have to save files or compile and have a few moments free.
Rene and Don, don't publish solutions yet, if you don't mind. If people are willing to wait, I'd like a chance this weekend to see if I can work them out (assuming the weekend ever comes, I've been trying to get a weekend off since December, global commerce sux).
JKP, I hate to toot my own horn, but I believe I have already deciphered Don's code. When I wrote that the beginning of Don's text must be the beginning of Machiavelli's Il Principe, that meant that I claimed that I had solved the whole thing:
"Tutti gli Stati, tutti i domini che hanno avuto, e hanno imperio sopra gli uomini, sono stati e sono o Repubbliche o Principati. I principati sono o ereditari, de' quali il sangue del loro Signore ne sia stato lungo tempo Principe, o e' sono nuovi."
Geoffrey