Since its almost weekend, i found some time to create the puzzle and still have some sponsored bundle-games lying around:
here comes another puzzle! \o/
Some really basic math might come in handy. Nothing fancy here. both, Math and GAs, dont be upset^^


You found a long paperstrip with apperantly some random characters on it.
Directly besides the paperstrip you found a suspicious stick with a circular area of 5538,96mm².
Every character takes 65,94mm of space.
If you do some calculations do it with only two decimals in every case.

Solution

witht the given circular area A you can determine the radius r of the circle(stick) (turns out i took 42mm for it,..because 42^^). With the radius you can determine the scope of the stick (263, 76mm). Further you know that one letter takes 65,94mm of space. That means exactly every 4 letters you made it around the stick. => every 4 characters you have a new row of characters.
DrBatmanPhD made this nice table as solution: http://puu.sh/usqDv/2e82ba8fa7.png

The whole cipher is based on the oldest military-encryption we know and the whole encrypted text was -The-Code:Wkd2o G L & H F
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytale

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Bump for this awesome puzzle.

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Finally another maths puzzle!
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thanks!

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bump! nice puzzle.

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i can tell you that you have to wrap the paperstrip around the stick to be able reading the code.

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Bump for I hate math c:

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You deserve a bump :)

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Bump for a cool puzzle!

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Bump for solved. Nice puzzle :)

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Solved just for the puzzle, not for the games.
Thanks!

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Nice puzzle, thanks!

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I have fun for solving the puzzle, but no luck.. I have no idea what the GA code though ;)

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Solution posted :)

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So what was the solution?
The ways i tried it all led nowhere...

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Solution posted :)

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Thanks :)
Seems my thinking was right after all but my math must have been off at one point, well you never stop learning :P

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