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Matrix Calculation! Part 2
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Matrix Calculation! Part 2

Challenge No. 198: Create a formula that, for any ‘n x n’ matrix, calculates z1 to zn, where zi is the sum of all the values in the ith row and the ith column of the matrix.
Solved using:Excel (BYCOL, INDEX, LAMBDA), Google Sheets, Power Query (List.Transform, Table.FromRows, Table.ToColumns), Python, Python in Excel, and R.

Decrypt using 5×76 transposition cipher
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Decrypt using 5×76 transposition cipher

Challenge No. 335: This is a 5 x 76 transposition cipher, where you start with the letter in the final position (‘W’) and then repeatedly step back through the whole ciphertext 5 positions at a time time, and then repeat that same process but starting from the letter one before the last position (‘T’) etc, revealing the first words of Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’.
Solved using: Python in Excel.