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Problem C
Over the Hill, Part 1

Hill encryption (devised by mathematician Lester S. Hill in 1929) is a technique that makes use of matrices and modular arithmetic. It is ideally used with an alphabet that has a prime number of characters, so we’ll use the $37$ character alphabet A, B, $\ldots $, Z, 0, 1, $\ldots $, 9, and the space character. The steps involved are the following:

  1. Replace each character in the initial text (the plaintext) with the substitution A$\rightarrow 0$, B$\rightarrow 1$, $\ldots $, (space)$ \rightarrow 36$. If the plaintext is ATTACK AT DAWN this becomes

    $0\ 19\ 19\ 0\ 2\ 10\ 36\ 0\ 19\ 36\ 3\ 0\ 22\ 13$
  2. Group these number into three-component vectors, padding with spaces at the end if necessary. After this step we have

    \[ \left( \begin{array}{c} 0 \\ 19 \\ 19 \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c} 0 \\ 2 \\ 10 \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c} 36 \\ 0 \\ 19 \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c} 36 \\ 3 \\ 0 \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c} 22 \\ 13 \\ 36 \end{array} \right) \]
  3. Multiply each of these vectors by a predetermined $3 \times 3$ encryption matrix using modulo $37$ arithmetic. If the encryption matrix is

    \[ \left( \begin{array}{ccc} 30 & 1 & 9 \\ 4 & 23 & 7 \\ 5 & 9 & 13 \end{array} \right) \]

    then the first vector is transformed as follows:

    \begin{eqnarray*} \left( \begin{array}{ccc} 30 & 1 & 9 \\ 4 & 23 & 7 \\ 5 & 9 & 13 \end{array} \right) \left( \begin{array}{c} 0 \\ 19 \\ 19 \end{array} \right) & = & \left( \begin{array}{c} (30 \times 0 + 1 \times 19 + 9 \times 19) \mod 37 \\ (4 \times 0 + 23 \times 19 + 7 \times 19) \mod 37 \\ (5 \times 0 + 9 \times 19 + 13 \times 19) \mod 37 \end{array} \right) \\ & = & \left( \begin{array}{c} 5 \\ 15 \\ 11 \end{array} \right) \end{eqnarray*}
  4. After multiplying all the vectors by the encryption matrix, convert the resulting values back to the $37$-character alphabet and concatenate the results to obtain the encrypted ciphertext. In our example the ciphertext is FPLSFA4SUK2W9K3.

This method can be generalized to work with any $n \times n$ encryption matrix in which case the initial plaintext is broken up into vectors of length $n$. For this problem you will be given an encryption matrix and a plaintext and must compute the corresponding ciphertext.

Input

Input begins with a line containing a positive integer $n \leq 10$ indicating the size of the matrix and the vectors to use in the encryption. After this are $n$ lines each containing $n$ integers (each between $0$ and $36$) specifying the encryption matrix. After this is a single line containing the plaintext consisting of $1$ to $100$ characters in the $37$-character alphabet specified above.

Output

Output the corresponding ciphertext on a single line.

Sample Input 1 Sample Output 1
3
30 1 9
4 23 7
5 9 13
ATTACK AT DAWN
FPLSFA4SUK2W9K3

Sample Input 2 Sample Output 2
6
26 11 23 14 13 16
6 7 32 4 29 29
26 19 30 10 30 11
6 28 23 5 24 23
6 24 1 27 24 20
13 9 32 18 20 18
MY HOVERCRAFT IS FULL OF EELS
W4QVBO0NJG5 Y76H5A6XHR11BV670Z

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