TheCodeBreakers
elements, like this
Plaintext codenumber
shield (for) 51648
shielded 07510
shielding 10983
shift(s) 43144
ship 35732
ships 10762
the code is a two-part code, because a second section, in which the code elements are in regular order, is
required for decoding:
codenumber plaintext
10980 was not
10981 spontaneous (ly)
10983 shielding
10986 April 13
10988 withdrawn from
10990 acknowledge
In a sense, a code comprises a gigantic cipher alphabet, in which the basic plaintext unit is the word or
the phrase; syllables and letters are supplied mainly to spell out words not present in the code. In ciphers,
on the other hand, the basic unit is the letter, sometimes the letter-pair (digraph or bigram), very rarely
larger groups of letters (polygrams)