From cf70ea881b888ab8b75fea026d85597289358fb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ellnix Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 13:30:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Label alphabets as English rather than Latin See the forum post for more details: https://forum.exercism.org/t/rotational-cipher-atbash-cipher-affine-cipher-the-english-alphabet-is-not-the-latin-roman-alphabet/15618 --- exercises/affine-cipher/description.md | 2 +- exercises/atbash-cipher/description.md | 2 +- exercises/rotational-cipher/description.md | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/exercises/affine-cipher/description.md b/exercises/affine-cipher/description.md index 8006b747d1..7aae345e08 100644 --- a/exercises/affine-cipher/description.md +++ b/exercises/affine-cipher/description.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Where: - `i` is the letter's index from `0` to the length of the alphabet - 1. - `m` is the length of the alphabet. - For the Roman alphabet `m` is `26`. + For the English alphabet `m` is `26`. - `a` and `b` are integers which make up the encryption key. Values `a` and `m` must be _coprime_ (or, _relatively prime_) for automatic decryption to succeed, i.e., they have number `1` as their only common factor (more information can be found in the [Wikipedia article about coprime integers][coprime-integers]). diff --git a/exercises/atbash-cipher/description.md b/exercises/atbash-cipher/description.md index ba699e350e..5e23daf15e 100644 --- a/exercises/atbash-cipher/description.md +++ b/exercises/atbash-cipher/description.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Create an implementation of the Atbash cipher, an ancient encryption system crea The Atbash cipher is a simple substitution cipher that relies on transposing all the letters in the alphabet such that the resulting alphabet is backwards. The first letter is replaced with the last letter, the second with the second-last, and so on. -An Atbash cipher for the Latin alphabet would be as follows: +An Atbash cipher for the English alphabet would be as follows: ```text Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz diff --git a/exercises/rotational-cipher/description.md b/exercises/rotational-cipher/description.md index 2a1b7b5e4a..f7e97969cb 100644 --- a/exercises/rotational-cipher/description.md +++ b/exercises/rotational-cipher/description.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ The letter is shifted for as many values as the value of the key. The general notation for rotational ciphers is `ROT + `. The most commonly used rotational cipher is `ROT13`. -A `ROT13` on the Latin alphabet would be as follows: +A `ROT13` on the English alphabet would be as follows: ```text Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz