Experiment 180
F3.7 (C15(b)-(d)). 0072 used compass points and the letter's words as keyword alphabets. Here 'point' as numbers: the decimal point in K2's 'six point five' (6 5, 65, 6 0 5) and the coordinates with it (38 57 6 5 77 8 44 and variants; 0024 used their digits); as punctuation: the places of the four ? on the copper (in the 869, by line, within their lines), the ? in K2's plaintext and their gaps, K2's X stops and their gaps. Each forward and reversed, every start, both signs, an unknown word of 1-24 letters, 12 table rules (0175's decider). 'The point' as a place on the grounds needs a survey: blocked.
What the method does with the 24 known letters.
Sanborn's last clue asks 'what's the point?'. A point can be the decimal point in K2the earlier messages The three solved parts of the sculpture.'s 'six point five', or a punctuation mark such as the question marks on the copper or the X that ends K2's sentences. Their numbers and places could be half the keythe secret word The word or string a cipher needs besides the method. and a secret word the other half. The 24 known lettersthe known letters Sanborn has confirmed that positions 22 to 34 of the message read EASTNORTHEAST and positions 64 to 74 read BERLINCLOCK. say whether any word fits.
Words in the margin are defined on the glossary page.
The carved letters go in at the top; the reading comes out at the bottom.
Sanborn's last hint, 'what's the point?', could mean the decimal point in K2's 'six point five', or a punctuation mark: the question marks on the copper or the X that ends K2's sentences.
Their numbers and places as the number half of a key, repeated from every start, added or subtracted, with a secret word of 1-24 letters on 12 table rules.
Nothing fits K4 or any of 20 scrambled copies; a planted text is found. F3.7 closed for these readings; 'the point' as a place on the grounds needs a survey.
This experiment produced no candidate: the search ruled everything out before a full text was built. Its product is the bounded negative in section 7.
Redo the method on a few letters with pencil and paper.
The same steps run by the code on the real letters.
6 5 (six point five) from the first number, Vigenere on the KRYPTOS table, word length 7
place known carved key num word value slot
22 E F 1 5 22 0
23 A L 10 6 4 1
24 S R 21 5 16 2
25 T V 18 6 12 3
26 N Q 1 5 22 4
27 O Q 15 6 9 5
28 R P 2 5 23 6
29 T R 23 6 17 0
30 H N 5 5 0 1
31 E G 2 6 22 2
32 A K 19 5 14 3
33 S S 0 6 20 4
34 T S 2 5 23 5
64 B N 11 5 6 0
65 E Y 17 6 11 1
66 R P 2 5 23 2
67 L V 5 6 25 3
68 I T 15 5 10 4
69 N T 11 6 5 5
70 C M 9 5 4 6
71 L Z 8 6 2 0
72 O F 7 5 2 1
73 C P 20 6 14 2
74 K K 0 5 21 3
Family, key space, the constraint under test, and the clues it reads.
C15: 'If they don't, then (CLUE) what's the point? Power resides with a secret' (Sanborn, August 2025); (b) the decimal point of K2's 'six point five', (c) a place, (d) punctuation, Scheidt's 'what's a period'. C5(b), C6. Model as 0175: k_i = w[i mod a] + s d[(i + o) mod m], 12 rules. Statistic: live settings, K4 against 20 coppers.
Written before the run; the result decides it.
No setting fits K4 or the coppers (5 or more checks each). Zero candidates.
The harness's record: candidates, gates, loss, and the negative result this experiment leaves behind.
live settings with >=4 checks: K4 0 (coppers 0-0); dictionary words 4+: K4 0 (coppers 0-0); plant found True
What was searched, as the harness recorded it.
How this experiment sits among the others is on the lineage page; its family's open hypotheses are on the families page.