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Beaver Code Decryption

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This challenge is taken with permission from https://www.mysterytwisterc3.org/en/challenges/level-1/beaver-code

Description

The encryption method is as follows:

The plaintext is divided into two halves, odd positions and even positions.

Example: 'CRYPTO' -> ['CYT','RPO']

This is then applied recursively to both halves, until each part is two letters or less. The parts are then merged.

'CRYPTO' -> ['CYT','RPO'] -> [['CT','Y'], ['RO','P']] -> 'CTYROP'

Challenge

Given a string encrypted with this method, decrypt it.

Valid input formats: ['CTYROP'], 'CTYROP'

Test cases

CTYROP -> CRYPTO
EOYCTNNPRI -> ENCRYPTION
RUOENFSEAFMRDHT -> RANDOMSTUFFHERE

Note: the encryption of the last test case is the same as the decryption, make sure you're decrypting!

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Jelly, 9 bytes

ŒHß¹Ḋ?€ZẎ

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How it works

ŒHß¹Ḋ?€ZẎ - Main link f(S). Takes a string S on the left
ŒH        - Split S into two halves
      €   - Over each half H:
     ?    -   If:
    Ḋ     -     Condition: H has more than 1 element
  ß       -     Then: yield f(H)
   ¹      -     Else: yield H
       Z  - Transpose the pair
        Ẏ - Dump inner lists
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BQN, 24 bytesSBCS

{g⊔⁼𝕊¨⍟(1<≠)𝕩⊔˜∧g←2|↕≠𝕩}

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{g⊔⁼𝕊¨⍟(1<≠)𝕩⊔˜∧g←2|↕≠𝕩}
{                      }  # Block function 𝕊 with argument 𝕩
                     ≠𝕩   # Length of 𝕩
                    ↕     # Range: 0,1,…,n
                g←2|      # Mod 2: 0,1,0,…
               ∧          # Sort: 0,0,…,1,1,…
            𝕩⊔˜           # Group 𝕩 by the above, splitting it in two
      ⍟(1<≠)              # If 1 is less than the length...
    𝕊¨                    #  ...call this function on each element
 g⊔⁼                      # Ungroup as if grouped by 0,1,0,1,…

BQN doesn't directly offer a "zip" function for interleaving. However, its Undo () modifier can combine with Group to reverse an uninterleaving. ⊔⁼ isn't required by the spec and dzaima/BQN doesn't support it; another 24-byte solution is {(⍋∘⍋⊏·∾○𝕊´𝕩⊔˜∧)2|↕≠𝕩}⎊⊢.

Using Undo means that the decoding program is similar to the encoding program given in the online link. The reason why decoding uses both normal and undone Group while encoding uses it only once is that for encoding the groups do not need to be mixed together, so Join () can be used instead.

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Solutions by ngn

https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/57690032#57690032

APL 17: {⍵[⍋⍋⍉⊖2⊥⍣¯1⍳≢⍵]}

ngn/k 13: {x@<<+|2\!#x}

These are too good not to post.

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APL(Dyalog Unicode), 34 29 bytes SBCS

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{2>s←⌈2÷⍨≢⍵:⍵⋄,⍉↑∇¨s(↑,⍥⊂↓)⍵}

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{2>s←⌈2÷⍨≢⍵:⍵⋄,⍉↑∇¨s(↑,⍥⊂↓)⍵}
{                              } ⍝ Define a dfn taking argument ⍵
   s→                            ⍝ s will be the size of one half of ⍵
         ≢⍵                     ⍝ Length of ⍵
      2÷⍨                        ⍝ Divided by two
     ⌈                           ⍝ Rounded up
 2>                              ⍝ If s is 1 (⍵ has 1 or 2 elements):
            :⍵                  ⍝ Just return ⍵
              ⋄                  ⍝ Otherwise
                     s(↑   ↓)⍵  ⍝ Train with first s elements of ⍵ on left
                                 ⍝ And second half of ⍵ on right
                         ⍥      ⍝ For both halves
                           ⊂    ⍝ Box them
                         ,      ⍝ Join into vector
                  ∇¨           ⍝ Run this function again on each half
                 ↑              ⍝ Turn into a character matrix
                ⍉              ⍝ Transpose
               ,               ⍝ Concatenate to interleave them together
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APL(Dyalog Extended), 32 bytes SBCS

{1=≢⍵:⍵⋄0~⍨,⍉↑∇¨↓2 ¯1⍴⍵,0/⍨2|≢⍵}

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A dfn submission which takes a string as input.

I thought this would be much shorter, but it's only a small improvement over unicode.

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Husk, 8 bytes

ΣTm?I₀ε½

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It's jelly but reversed. 1 byte lesser due to a single byte halve.

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