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Bacon on the desk

Medium. Baconian cipher. Five a/b symbols a letter. A=aaaaa.

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a is 0, b is 1. Five bits to a letter. A is aaaaa, B aaaab, through Z. Spaces stripped.

aabab aaaaa baaba baabb

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