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The Da Vinci Code
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- Looking at Sophie's substitution matrix, Langdon felt a rising thrill that he imagined must have rivaled the thrill felt by early scholars when they first used the Atbash Cipher to decrypt the now famous Mystery of Sheshach.
Chpt 77-78 *matrix = grid (in this case, with 2 rows in which each column shows what letter to substitute for another letter)
- Sheshach, in Hebrew, was spelled: Sh-Sh-K. Sh-Sh-K, when placed in the substitution matrix, became B-B-L. B-B-L, in Hebrew, spelled Babel.
Chpt 77-78
- Now we simply apply your Atbash substitution matrix to translate the letters into our five-letter password.
Chpt 77-78
- He looked at Sophie's substitution matrix and slowly began to make the conversion.
Chpt 77-78
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- A laser-tooled varying matrix.†
Chpt 31-32
- The cruciform on top implied the key belonged to some kind of Christian organization, and yet Sophie knew of no churches that used laser-tooled varying matrix keys.†
Chpt 31-32 *
Definitions:
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(matrix as in: arranged in a rectangular matrix) an arrangement of numbers or elements into a grid of rows and columns
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(matrix as in: the social matrix of the town) a set of conditions or environment in which something develops
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) See a comprehensive dictionary for specialized meanings of matrix in mathematics, biology, geology, and other fields.