How can the word teacher be coded as 129?

Answer 1

There are a number of ways to encode teacher as 129. The following way works; however, is probably not easy to decode easily back to teacher:

* Set the value of the vowels (a, e, i, o and u) to 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

* Set the value of consonants (b, c, d, f, ..., z) to 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 21

* Add up the value of teacher (16 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 6 + 2 + 14) = 43

* Multiply that number by the number of vowels (43 * 3) = 129