I have just read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. After the epilogue , the page has one line of numbers?, ideas p

Question

the page has a single line of numbers after the epilogue page ( next page )

Answer 1

The code is not as complicated as you might think. Take another look. Here's the way you decode it. Take the numbers and arrange them in 4 vertical columns of 4 numbers. It should look like this:

128 10 6 39
10 128 6 1
93 98 25 68
85 112 126 78


Each number corresponds to a chapter in the book, in which the first letter is conveniently larger than the rest. That is the letter that each number stands for. Using that method, you end up with the secret message

Answer 2

Could be Binary if the digits are in batches of 8 - 16 -32.
If the are pairs in a row it could be Hexadecimal.
Perhaps you will be able to read it if you digest its contents?
A bit like that programme Morse.
What's the good of SOS in Morse code at the end if no most people do not understand it?

Something to add before I go to bed.
Someone has said the first number was 128- say no more.
It is Hex and the resulting numbers are the logic of the detail associated with the lead number.
Take Midi
The first pair is the manufacturer
The second his model
The third could be a key
The fourth the velocity the key responds to and so on.
The author knows midi which is no great deal but I guess his story is good.
Hex and Binary is the computer's blood take that away and all you have left is mechanical junk.
Hex is the basics of Midi and the same applies.

Answer 3

Its a code. If you have the book you have everything you need to solve it. I don't want to give too much away but just look for what else in the book uses numbers. You'll then be able to transform the numbers into a sequence of letters.

If I remember correctly there is also another step after this using a famous piece of cryptography mentionned in the book.

Answer 4

Thanks to the guy earlier I now know the answer, it took me a bit of time to understand it and to check through all the chapters, but I go there after a few minutes looking at it, very clever guy that Dan Brown. Heads Up to you mate!!!

Answer 5

I've read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it, but am so naff at maths that i didn't even attempt it!

I'd be really interested in knowing the answer, tho!

PS for the guy that said about Morse....the Morse code spells out inspector Morse's name...Endeavour

Answer 6

If the numbers were 1's and 0's, it was binary code.

Answer 7

Its the coordinates to where the holy grail is hidden!!!