The imitation game ****enigma
I just watched a cracking good film, The Imitation Game.
BLETCHLEY PARK … THE WAR YEARS
The story of Alan Turing and the breaking of the German's most secret code. It was said, early in the war that, Enigma had a possible 159 million, million, million, million possible combinations. The British calculated that if 10 men, working around the clock, and each tried one possible combination every minute, it would take 20 million years to come up with the correct combination.
Alan Turing, a genius of the 1st caliber, figured that since it was impossible for human brains to solve the Enigma code, only a "thinking" machine could do the job. He then set out to create such a machine.
Truly, a great thinking persons film.