Being the kind of nerd who loves codes & ciphers, when the title of this mix came to me, I had to ask what differentiates a cipher from a code: Ciphers transform messages at the letter or bit level using algorithmic, mathematical rules (e.g. shift each letter 7 ahead in an alphabet), while codes substitute entire words, phrases, or semantic units using pre-defined codebooks (e.g. Eagle = President). Being someone who enjoys patterns, if I had to pick a team, I'm on team cipher. And I might be on team Cypher in 'The Matrix,' too, you never know. The title is reflective of the fact that I'm quite interested in what the opposite of the letter C might be, for reasons having to do with NHI, which are always weird & difficult to summarize in 1000 characters.
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