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This is another exercise in re-arranging formulae involving modulus arithmetic and it illustrates another type of coding system. Alternatively the pairs $(\alpha, \beta)$ can also be treated as vectors and matrix algebra used to encode and decode the messages. Another alternative is to use an encryption formula based on the numbers 0 to 675 which represent the letter pairs.