Chi Square: Language Detection + Code Breaking We can use the power of maths to allow computers to accurately recognise which language someone is writing in - even without needing to have understanding of any language at all. How? With the Chi Square goodness of fit test. Every language in the world has its own... Continue Reading →
Using Chi Squared to Crack Codes
This is inspired from the great site, Practical Cryptography which is a really good resource for code making and code breaking. One of their articles is about how we can use the Chi Squared test to crack a Caesar Shift code. Indeed, if you use an online program to crack a Caesar shift, they are... Continue Reading →