Princeton Nerd Cracks Ancient Penn Nerd Code

A couple centuries ago, a Penn professor named Robert Patterson wrote to Thomas Jefferson with this crazy secret message that everybody kind of agreed was impossible to solve. Patterson even said it was so hard, it would, "defy the united ingenuity of the whole human race." Yikes. Well sorry, Patterson, but it looks like a mathematician working in Princeton, NJ figured it out.

Sure, this Dr. Smithline works IN Princeton, not AT Princeton, but whatever, this is the cryptology equivalent of Princeton winning a decade's worth of football games against us or stealing all of our "Penetrate the Puss" shirts and soaking them in urine. Ugh.

So touche, sir, but we here at UTB have concocted a cypher of our own:

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