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The questions tagged "puzzle" are essentially programming questions, that are as good as solving puzzles. These can be contrasted to the real-life problems, which are comparatively easy to solve.

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Translate a string using a character map

Consider the following pattern A → D M → P X → A a → d m → p x → a I need to write a program to solve the following message Vrphwklqjphdqlqjixo If there is any inbuilt function in python please let me know. Thanks in advance.
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How to work out this AutoIt encryption challenge?

My friend sent me a AutoIt riddle and a key to decrypt. I am a beginner in AutoIt [AU3] and I am stuck on "split". ;~ AutoIt Code StringReverse("46-ESAB") Func StringReverse( $input ) Local $output Local $split = StringSplit( $input , "") For $i =…
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How can I replace this code with one if statement?

For the sake of challenge, how can I replace this code with only one if statement? unsigned int x, y; cin>>x; if((x>=0)&&(x<=1)) y = 1; else if (x<=3) y = 2; else if(x<=5) y = 3; else y = 6;
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