The Monk’s Cipher
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1 min readJul 6, 2019
Could you come up with a graphical representation of a number, but where you can only use a single character? Well the European monks of the Middle Ages did this with a single character and with strokes to represent the digits. We then have a vertical straight line and then builds on the digit:
The digits from 0–9 appear in the top right hand corner. For the 10s, they appear in the top left hand corner, and so on:
Now go solve this one: