Experiment 186
F4.3 (C3(c)). The anomalies on the copper, located from the transcript (knowledge/01-facts.md): the four ? at places 101, 227, 289, 772 of the left side; K2's omitted S between places 427 and 428 (end of line 14); the raised Y, A, R at 439, 440, 442 (line 15, columns 4, 5, 7); the extra L at the end of the tableau's line 15 (column 32, first line of the lower-right plate); the 33- and 29-letter lines (23 and 24). Readings: all of them as places in carved order, as line numbers, as columns, the gaps between them, the first-line markers (YAR columns and the L's column), each forward and reversed. With an unknown word of 1-24 letters, every start, both signs, 12 table rules (0175's decider). 0178 and 0180 already used the ? alone and YAR alone.
What the method does with the 24 known letters.
The copper has oddities: question marks, a letter left out of K2the earlier messages The three solved parts of the sculpture., three raised letters, an extra L on the alphabet side, lines longer or shorter than the rest. Where they sit could be a list of numbers that is half the keythe secret word The word or string a cipher needs besides the method., 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 likes 'spatial systems'. The copper's oddities, its question marks, the letter missing from K2, the raised YAR, the extra L, the odd line lengths, sit at particular places, which could be the number half of a key.
Their places, lines and columns as numbers repeated from every start, added or subtracted, with a secret word of 1-24 letters on 12 table rules; the 24 known letters must agree on the word.
Nothing fits K4 or any of 20 scrambled copies; a planted text is found. F4.3 closed.
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.
the anomaly places from the first, Vigenere on the KRYPTOS table, word length 7
place known carved key num word value slot
22 E F 1 440 3 0
23 A L 10 442 10 1
24 S R 21 772 3 2
25 T V 18 101 21 3
26 N Q 1 227 8 4
27 O Q 15 289 12 5
28 R P 2 428 16 6
29 T R 23 439 0 0
30 H N 5 440 7 1
31 E G 2 442 2 2
32 A K 19 772 1 3
33 S S 0 101 3 4
34 T S 2 227 9 5
64 B N 11 772 19 0
65 E Y 17 101 20 1
66 R P 2 227 9 2
67 L V 5 289 2 3
68 I T 15 428 3 4
69 N T 11 439 14 5
70 C M 9 440 11 6
71 L Z 8 442 8 0
72 O F 7 772 15 1
73 C P 20 101 23 2
74 K K 0 227 7 3
Family, key space, the constraint under test, and the clues it reads.
C3(c): 'I like to use spatial systems of encoding... visual systems' (Sanborn); positions of the physical anomalies as the key. C10 (positioning), C21(b) (the extra L as a marker matching YAR). 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.