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  1. ozapenguin
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    I made a code. It is not very complicated at all once you figure it out. I might give the first person to decipher it a small prize.

    14.01/30.97/30.97/9.012//20.18/30.97/4.003//26.98/78.96

    I may give hints after a while.
     
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    Is it meant to be decoded into letters or a string of numbers or will it be a set of numbers?
     
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    It can be decoded into words that make sense
     
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    "Good job " ...?
    can't get the last word :I
     
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    Good job m8
     
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    *facepalm*

    When I saw the 34, I tried looping back through the alphabet xD

    But yeah, the only reason I got this was because I'm taking AP Chemistry right now xD
     
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    I hope its right xD The only way m was gonna make a two letter word was me/my and that didn't make sense
     
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    LOL YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE I GOT THAT FROM DID YOU

    Anywho, the numbers listed are atomic weights. You go to the periodic table and match the weights to their corresponding atomic numbers. Each of those corresponds to that letter in the alphabet, A-1, B-2, and etc. I didn't realize that after Z-26, it started at 1-27, 2-28, and etc.
     
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    Lol no. Each letter = 2x the alphabet position
     
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    I just dropped the decimals
     
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    Well, technically that only works relatively well because the atomic weight of elements is typically twice their atomic number. For the first one, element number 7 is Nitrogen, which has an atomic weight of 14.01. Most of the time, it is found in nature with 7 protons and 7 neutrons. What you did was chop off the 7 neutrons until you're left with the 7 protons, which is in fact the atomic number.

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    It worked well enough for me ^^
     
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    Because your heuristic just happened to work, whereas my algorithm was the definite way in which the code was derived. You can't even explain why "chopping the decimals" just magically worked. He didn't just put random decimals there for no reason, not to mention 9/2 is 4.5, not 4 exactly.

    Sorry m8 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
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    We have a winner!
    So the numbers there were atomic masses of elements. Once you find which element it is, you look at the atomic number. If it is 1, the letter is A, etc. For numbers, if it is 27, the number is 1, etc. Basically what Sleepyhead08 said. PhilsNZ, You owed me a diamond before so now we are even. Sleepyhead08 I will give you a diamond for also figuring it out.
     
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