In Reply to: Also take a look at the Codebreaker posted by Victor Khomenko on December 29, 2014 at 07:27:53:
They would not have broken enigma without Turing's insight that they needed a message with some known phrase or phrases, like weather and Heil, Hitler, in irder to dramatically reduce the number of possible keys his machine had to sift through. In other words. Turng was indispensable.
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- RE: Also take a look at the Codebreaker - geoffkait 12:44:13 12/29/14 (8)
- Not quite so - Victor Khomenko 13:40:51 12/29/14 (7)
- That might be true but - geoffkait 14:11:42 12/29/14 (6)
- That is all well documented - Victor Khomenko 14:19:18 12/29/14 (5)
- The theory of relativity was built somewhat on what others had done before, nevertheless... - geoffkait 14:41:29 12/29/14 (4)
- " It stopped the war" Avoid gross overstatements. - Victor Khomenko 15:06:13 12/29/14 (3)
- MI6 doled out intelligence according to the statistical probabilities to avoid Nazi suspicion. - geoffkait 16:25:22 12/29/14 (2)
- I have not seen the movie, and don't have any particular desire - Victor Khomenko 19:53:36 12/29/14 (1)
- RE: I have not seen the movie, and don't have any particular desire - geoffkait 03:56:18 12/30/14 (0)