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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: OT programming challenge: fastest/best/shortest C program to
 jumble a sentence, then restore it
Date: 9 Mar 2024 04:32:26 GMT
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On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 20:53:08 -0500, DFS wrote:

> Thanks for participating.  I was about to cancel the challenge for lack
> of interest.  Our code isn't quite done, since one of the requirements
> was to concatenate the tokens, then print.  And then split the jumbled
> one apart and reconstitute it.  Mostly useless exercises, I now realize.

I don't see how that would work without maintaining the original state. 
You can't unscramble eggs. A cipher's output isn't random.