“The Da Lakhvi Code” continues …….

At this point, I sent Pramod a message that I wished to see him. I wanted to meet him to review the progress on the case.
The ACP left his office in Ashok Vihar for police headquarters, where my office was located. Vivek wanted to accompany him as he thought that at the end of the forty- minute drive to headquarters, he would have cracked the code. Reluctantly, Pramod agreed. Throughout the long drive amidst maddening traffic, the two friends did not exchange a word. Vivek remained drowned in thought, scribbling feverishly on a sheet of paper.
As they alighted near the stairs of the police headquarters, Vivek, in a eureka moment, let out a muted cry of triumph: ‘Sir, I have cracked the code and it is very simple. It is a combination of binary and decimal systems that our maths teacher in school taught us.’
Pramod began to climb the stairs and heard Vivek out with incredulity. His friend explained that each letter of the English alphabet had been numbered from .0 to .9, starting with A. The tenth letter was numbered 00, with the decimal point shifting a digit to the left. So, A was numbered .0, B was .1, C was .2 and so on until J, which was numbered .9. With this method, K was not assigned the number .10 but instead .00, and L became .01, M was .02 and so on until T, which was numbered .09. Consequently, U was numbered .000, V was .001, W was .002, X was .003, Y was .004 and Z was .005.
To further clarify, I will put it down more elaborately. The code used for each letter of the alphabet is written below it:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
0 1 2 .3 . 4 . 5 .6 .7 .8 .9 00 .01 .02 .03
O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
.04 .05 . 06 .07 .08 .09 000 .001 .002 .003 .004 .005

To be Continued ……….