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Software Engineer / DevelopersCountry: United States
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I guess you are right .
And this pattern perfectly fits with the first 6 characters.
A E F
B C D
b c f
a d e
One way of looking at this is by taking the numbers equivalent to these alphabets. if we replace the existing series of alphabets with the numbers equivalent to these alphabets, then we'll see something like this
8 9 11 12 13 14 20
7 10 15 16 17 18 19
there are multiple ways of looking at it, I found that given a number, the double of the number never comes in the same line, and used this logic to crack the first 6 positions. There might be other ways of looking at it.
Characters in the top row are written with straight lines, whereas those in the bottom row are written with curved lines.
- Glenn December 31, 2011