Chef and Codes

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Once upon a time chef decided to learn encodings. And, obviously, he started with the easiest one (well, actually the easiest after Caesar cypher) – substitution cypher. But very soon Chef got bored with encoding/decoding, so he started thinking how to hack this cypher. He already knows some algorithm, which is not always correct, but it’s sufficient for now. Here is its description. Imagine we

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