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Monthly Archive August, 2004

Depuzzle DSD

G’day mates, it is time for a set of puzzles from Defence Signal Directorate of Australian Department of Defence. These puzzles are not actually cryptograms but I like koalas, kangaroos, Steve Irwin and all that stuff so here we go.
PUZZLE 1
This paragraph is kind of unusual. To work out what is wrong with it […]

Fast prime factorization method

There are numbers as a product of two prime factors and there is a special set of such numbers that can be factorized with a simply method.
The method is very easy to describe: take BASE2 representation of a number; pad it with a leading zero to even length if necessary; bisect it; confuse two […]