If you are into codes, puzzles, help please!

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Does anyone know what the downward arrows could mean in the attached image? Thanks in advance!!

By the way, the p. might refer to page number, w to word, and l to letter.

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Hi, I tried uploading it again now but for some reason it won’t work, oh well.

I have another question.
This is a code, FDFY-YBD-FDFM. It is supposed to be an 11 digit phone number. Any ideas?
 
I love a puzzle!

FDFY-YBD-FDFM: No idea, but I doubt it has to do with phone numbers.

Can you give us a little context?
 
Here’s another puzzle: Once I had a phone number 625-4964. This is true. What’s so special about it?
 
Hmmm, I don’t know, what’s special about it? I wan to know!
 
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A former player of this game hinted to me that it is a phone number. That was also my guess before he even told me. In my country, mobile numbers are 11 digits.

I don’t know how to ‘convert’ these letters into numbers, if it’s the righ term.
 
In your country, what is the language, or how do you write the names of numerals 0-9?
 
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Hmmm, I don’t know, what’s special about it? I wan to know!
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I’ll give you a hint. When I look at numbers, I sometimes see arithmetic. Once while riding a train, I saw the car number 3162 and I recognized that 31 is half of 62. If the pairs are reversed, you have 13 and 26, and 13 is half of 26. Gather alternate digits and you have 36 and 12, which are related by a factor of 3. Reverse the digits and you have 63 and 21, also related by a factor of 3. Break it into single digits 3, 1, 6, and 2. These may be associated as 1+2+3=6 and also 1*2*3=6 and 3*2=6*1. Take only the three digits 162, which is 2*81 and of course 81=3*3*3*3. Rearrange 162 and you have 216 which is 6*6*6. That sort of thing. On that ride, I must not have had a book to read.
 
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Look on your phone. There are alpha numerics like you use in one of those catchy phone numbers like 1-800-FLOWERS

So the simplest answer to FDFY-YBD-FDFM would be

3339-9230-3336
 
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49 is 7 squared and 64 is 8 squared.
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You are getting warm. Also 25 is 5 squared, 625 is 25 squared, and we might as well throw in that 4 is 2 squared and 9 is 3 squared. Six squares in one phone number!
 
Yes. The dashes are optional. For example if you write your mobile # on a piece of paper for someone , you can write dashes for wasier perusal. the first 4 digits denotes the service provider, and the remaining 7 digits is the actual number. Of course when dialling on the phone, one just keys in the digits continuously.
 
Thanks, I’ll try this! My phone don’t have the alphanumerics anymore.
 
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Thanks, I’ll try this! My phone don’t have the alphanumerics anymore.
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Strange. Do you not have a cell phone? Android and Apple both have them on their keys.
 
I have a cellphone, but the keypad (only numbers) is not the same as the old ones (which are alphanumeric).
 
I was wondering if the phone number puzzle involves a Caesar Cipher. That is a letter substitution method which involves shifting a certain number of places in the alphabet (and wrapping around at the ends of the alphabet).

For example, if the cipher is decoded by shifting one place to the right, then Y would become Z, which might represent zero in English, or zwei (2) in German.

Unfortunately, a shift of one place to the right doesn’t work for all the other numerals. F becomes G, and what number could that be? So either a different shift is used, or it is not a Caesar Cipher.
 
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Here you go. These are the arrows I mentioned.
 
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