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The guest, identified simply as "R," shares how he became engrossed in the study of scripts during his engineering years. While many students brought puzzles or crosswords to class, R had an affinity for cryptograms. Though initially lacking a profound mathematical understanding, R developed a knack for solving unknown scripts, leading him to question existing decipherments of the Indus script that he found wanting.
R's approach centered on mathematical principles from information theory, evolving to model the Indus script as a cryptogram. This foundational understanding allowed him to apply a method of decipherment that relied on carefully constructed patterns—similar to how letters and words are organized in known languages.