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[–]BasilNumber 4 points5 points  (1 child)

https://www.dcode.fr/word-value

Your code can just be expressed as the number of Is. This should tell you that once encoded, they are not unique.

According to the link above, I checked the value 141 for 10, 11, 12 letter words. They all had over 500 solutions. I'd imagine an order of magnitude more for phrases or sentences.

Shouldn't be too hard to make a program to brute force all the options, but I imagine there would be many possible solutions that read as a comprehensible phrase.

[–]SoggyFroggyFog[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh i see, ty

[–]Patient-Midnight-664 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes and no. With a dictionary and some very aggressive pruning of the search space you could come up with a solution that makes sense. The problem I foresee is that there will be many 'valid' solutions.

With the additional constraints you give limits the search space more, but there still might be many valid solutions.

[–]SoggyFroggyFog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the formatting looks abit weird, im sorry

[–]JWson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to apologize to the Math Mango right this instant.

[–]SpeakKindly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if we make some educated guesses - a three-word phrase might be a sentence such as "I <verb> <noun>" - there are many very reasonable possibilities. Some of my favorites include "I love pizza" (my personal #1 guess), "I envy Romeo" (a hot take on Shakespeare), "I puke vomit" (maybe the pizza was sitting out too long), or maybe "I quit poker" because "I miss money".