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Solution: Cryptogram

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Tkj inhpb zegqv cgl anorjm gxje tkj ydsf mgu.

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This is a simple alphabetical substitution cipher. Each letter in the English alphabet is replaced with a different letter. Since the ciphertext is fairly long, it's susceptible to several forms of statistical analysis. Letters don't appear with consistent frequency: the letter "e" makes up about 13% of all English text, followed by "t" (9.1%) and "a" (8.2%). Automated tools are available to use this analysis (possibly in combination with a dictionary to detect whole words) to break a simple substitution cipher.

The plaintext, as found by an automated solver:

ciphertext alphabet: dzpmjcukhabyovgriewtnxqlfs
plaintext alphabet:  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

In set theory, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, named after mathematicians Ernst Zermelo and Abraham Fraenkel, is an axiomatic system that was proposed in the early twentieth century in order to formulate a theory of sets free of paradoxes such as Russell's paradox. Today, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, with the historically controversial axiom of choice (AC) included, is the standard form of axiomatic set theory and as such is the most common foundation of mathematics. Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice included is abbreviated ZFC, where C stands for "choice", and ZF refers to the axioms of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice excluded.

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