The Alphabet Code: What Happens When You Run a Simple Rule on the Letter “a”

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Here is a string of letters: gzhlvzggjzyihjgheqvzgzhlvzhlvbjzgyhzizygjzbjzhlvgjzehjdzzgheqv... It looks like a cat walked across a keyboard. It isn’t. It’s the start of a sequence that runs to thousands of characters, and every letter is fixed in advance by one rule applied to the letter “a.” No randomness, no guessing, no training data. Run the same rule again tomorrow, or on another computer, and you get exactly the same string.

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