Hi. Does anyone have a working solution for problem set 4 problem 4 (Multi-level decryption) for 6.00sc? I have spent days and I can decrypt most of the text, but in some part of the text i decrypts the wrong word.

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anonymous · Answer

I'm in the same boat-- I've finished up to find_best_shifts_rec(), but can't for the life of me make it work (been at it for about three days).  There's no solution given in the supplied solutions, and the pseudo code provided isn't clear enough for me to use it generate a working solution.  Is there anyone out there who's been able to crack it that might be able to help?

anonymous · Answer

What is the problem exactly?

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

I have been working on it as well, I think the trick is that you need to design the program which choose the longer word as the "right word" when there are different possible words, because if you don't do that then the program will determine some short and weird words as the right word to use without comparison,such as "em","ox", which are obviously wrong, and you can't solve the rest of text if you got one word wrong previously.

anonymous · Answer

Any of you getting anywhere with this?

anonymous · Answer

I haven't figured it out. This problem is a pain in the retrice

puzzler7 · Answer

I worked on it for days, and couldn't figure it out. I decided to make it so that it returned the decoded text.

clalgee · Answer

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