Ziggy wrote:
I tried to work on that challenge, even Google any information I could, but I was just too confused. Sorry to let you down, Hakunamatata.
Obviously I wouldn't be creating a quiz in which the answer could easily be googled.
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Anyway, here's is the full explanation for the benefit of those still puzzled:
The original sequence was Alpha, Beta, Gamma (missing word), Delta, Epsilon, the first five letters of the Greek alphabet.
I then encoded them using the simple number-for-letter code in which A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on.
This will produce 1-12-16-8-1, 2-5-20-1, 7-1-13-13-1, 4-5-12-20-1, 5-16-19-9-12-15-14.
I then converted the numbers into Roman numerals, so that for Alpha, it would be I-XII-XVI-VIII-I, and so on.
Next I eliminated the dashes between separate letters so as to complicate things further. However, I put the total sum of the numbers in each word in brackets after the word, so as to clue you on how to solve it.
Eg: for Alpha, 1+12+16+8+1=38, I put the number 38 in brackets after the code for Alpha, hence you get IXIIXVIVIIII (XXXVIII). Yes, XXXVIII is the Roman numeral equivalent of 38.
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