# Wase 2020: The Role of Base 10 in the Beale Papers

> Viktor Wase, 2020. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. A second statistical test pointing to fabrication of ciphers 1 and 3.

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# The Role of Base 10 in the Beale Papers

Viktor Wase, 2020. _Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Historical Cryptology, HistoCrypt 2020, Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 171: 153-157_.

Looks at the last digits of the cipher numbers in bases prime to 10. In those bases the last digits of ciphers 1 and 3 become uniform, which Wase reads as numbers made up by a person thinking in base 10.

**Beale ciphersSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.3384/ecp2020171019](https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020171019)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

A second statistical test pointing to fabrication of ciphers 1 and 3.

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## Cite it

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Wase, V. (2020). The Role of Base 10 in the Beale Papers. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Historical Cryptology, HistoCrypt 2020, Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 171: 153-157. https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020171019
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