1.4 Count the dictionaries
Exercise 1.4 Count the dictionaries
How many substitution dictionaries are possible for the cryptogram-style substitution in the previous exercise?
Note that the alphabet that was used in the key.py
file was
import string
= string.ascii_letters + string.digits alphabet
Thus, the number of substitution dictionaries that are possible is \(62! \approx 2^{284.018}\).