There were 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All we had to do was...
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Alan Turing:
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There were 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All we had to do was try each one. But if we had ten men checking one setting a minute for 24 hours every day and seven days every week, how many days do you think it would take to check each of the settings? Well it's not days, it's years. It's 20 *million* years. To stop a coming attack, we would have to check 20 million years' worth of settings in 20 minutes.
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One hundred and fifty nine million million million
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possible Enigma settings
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All we had to do was try each one
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But if we had 10 men checking one setting a minute
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for 24 hours every day and seven days every week
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how many days do you think it would take to check each of the settings
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It's not days it's years
Clip duration: 33 seconds
Views: 226
Timestamp in movie: 00h 16m 01s
Uploaded: 18 March, 2022
Genres: history, drama, thriller, war
Summary: Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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