Decoding Encryption message puzzle

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Decode the encrypted message below to form an English Phrase below :

1001110000010000100101110110000011001001011100100110011010000010100100

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    ANSWER- SPHINX FINISHED


    EXPLANATION-

    There are 70 characters in the given code it can be divided equally into groups of factors of 70 characters.
    Example- Group of 2 characters, 5 characters, 7 characters, 14 or 35 or 70.

    Now as it is mentioned in the question that the decoded sentence will be in English language the number of characters per group can be 5 (as the binary value of 26, the number of letters in English Alphabet, is 11010 containing 5 characters) Or it can be seven if the code is given in ASCII.

    But logically grouping the characters into 7 characters per group will give you the second group as 0000100 which is 8 not an ASCII value for the English alphabet.
    So we can form groups of 5 characters each

    10011 – 19 – S
    10000 – 16 – P
    01000 – 8 – H
    01001 – 9 – I
    01110 – 14 – N
    11000 – 24 – X

    00110 – 6 – F
    01001 – 9 – I
    01110 – 14 – N
    01001 – 9 – I
    10011 – 19 – S
    01000 – 8 – H
    00101 – 5 – E
    00100 – 4 – D

    Which gave the phrase SPHINX FINISHED.

    Detective Expert Answered on 18th February 2016.
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