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Why would anyone care about Excel column numbers?
Well…
Cryptologists are always dealing with tables that have 26 columns
So if the cells in the top row are named A thru Z
The 2nd row could be AA thru AZ
And the next row could be BA thru BZ
The idea of numbering system in base-26 is not so odd after all.
CI, CA, DA refers to 4621, 3301, 9901
In a certain series of Primes
And cryptographers do love their primes.
I think Cicada 3301 refers to the puzzlemaker
And the 3301 is the key, as in the info that unlocks the secret.
CI, CA, DA is the 87th, 79th, 105th elements in a series
And one of them must be 3301.
There is such a series of primes.
And if EC is the puzzlemaker
How curious that he should change his name to EW
Because he goes from bland 133 to WOW!!! 153
This man of mystery, is a Mr. E. indeed.