String: - a m a 1 0 - 7 - - 4 - Positions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Then she reversed the decoding: the whole string’s layout — first word length? 3 letters minus 10 = -7? No. She wrote the numbers as positions in the string itself:
Finally she tried: hyphens = word boundaries. ama10 = am a 10 = “I am a ten” (Roman: X) 7- = seven dash = seven minus dash = seven minus one (dash as 1) = 6 → F -4- = dash four dash = four surrounded by ones = 1-4-1 → in alphabet: A D A
String: - a m a 1 0 - 7 - - 4 - Positions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Then she reversed the decoding: the whole string’s layout — first word length? 3 letters minus 10 = -7? No. She wrote the numbers as positions in the string itself:
Finally she tried: hyphens = word boundaries. ama10 = am a 10 = “I am a ten” (Roman: X) 7- = seven dash = seven minus dash = seven minus one (dash as 1) = 6 → F -4- = dash four dash = four surrounded by ones = 1-4-1 → in alphabet: A D A