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My general impression is that the cryptographers routinely do stuff that's an order of magnitude more mind-blowing than this. [1] More people need to read The
by mechanical_fish 16y ago
My general impression is that the cryptographers routinely do stuff that's an order of magnitude more mind-blowing than this. [1]
More people need to read The Codebreakers.
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[1] Alas, I just have to marvel, because for some reason my mind doesn't anagram well. I just don't have the knack. To me high-level Scrabble playing looks like a superpower.
- mccutchen 16y ago"Alas, I just have to marvel, because for some reason my mind doesn't anagram well. I just don't have the knack. To me high-level Scrabble playing looks like a superpower." I feel the exact same way. Well put.
- dminor 16y agoI've noticed the same thing - Boggle comes easy, but Scrabble does not.
- baddox 16y agoMore mind-blowing, perhaps, but probably not that quickly off the tops of their heads.
- edge17 16y agocheck out this documentary - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390632/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390632/ These guys can anagram stuff like crazy, but don't know what most of the words they use even mean.