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To those who saw them up close, Dennis had the capacity to make an observation in an instant that would take someone else weeks of painstaking math to figure out. Even Eckhardt marveled as Dennis’s knack to intuitively see “it”: “Look what this means. Look at the deep axiom in here. It works.” That said, Eckhardt was the mathematical genius. He was
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An odd sort of a friendship developed between the young Lovelace and the older Babbage. Growing up in the shadow of her famously philandering father, the poet and baron George Byron, whom she barely knew, Ada had been discouraged from literary study. Her mother, Lady Anne Isabella Byron, a strict Christian and a formidable intellect in her own
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Al-Kindī’s technique, known as frequency analysis, shows that it is unnecessary to check each of the billions of potential keys. Instead, it is possible to reveal the contents of a scrambled message simply by analyzing the frequency of the characters in the ciphertext.
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