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you are a spy and you want to send a message to your mother country, motherland, right? Whatever you want to call it. All right, assuming you're Russian. So, um cuz there's Is there any other There's no mother USA, right? It's only mother Russia, right? Everyone else I think is male. Um so, in any case, you're going and you're you're a spy, you want to send your message to your country. Now, think about it in the olden days. You want to send a letter, you want to send some sort of document, you can't just say straight out, "Hey, by the way, you know, they have nukes in this location and this and this location and this and this location. Be careful of this cuz then they're just going to, you know, intercept it and they're not going to It's not going to uh be successful. It's not going to reach its destination. So, what you can do is do something through codes. You could You could uh um hide a message through codes. So, you could be like, "Hey, Mom, everything is great down here in Siberia. I'm having a blast and, you know, and just continue writing a normal letter and then you tell them beforehand, "Every 10th letter, circle that letter." And then afterwards, forget about everything else that I wrote, everything else at the end, that's how you know my my real message is is that you circle every 10th letter and then you'll find
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