"quadrilinear" - 1 õppematerjal

TheCodeBreakers

protagonists of his great Ulysses.* It was in 1918 that Byrne hit upon the principle *It may not be coincidence that in Ulysses an inventory of Mr. Leopold Bloom's locked private drawer at 7 Eccles Street included, among other things, "3 typewritten letters, addressee, Henry Flower, c/o P.O. Westland Row, addresser, Martha Clifford, c/o P.O. Dolphin's Barn: the transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrephodontic punctuated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N.IGS./WI.UU.OX/ W.OKS.MH/Y.IM: . ..." "Quadrilinear" meant to set the cipher in four lines; "reversed alphabetic" indicated the key of a = z, b = Y, etc.; "boustrephodontic," an adjective concocted from the adjective "boustrephodon," a technical term in paleography referring to writing that runs left and right in alternate lines, indicating that the lines of the cryptogram were to be read in that way.