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Official: Turing's Bombe better than a Concorde plane

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Re: countless?

"Well I'll tell you what, you just pop off and do all that whilst we wait here, because then you'll have counted all the lives sa.... Waaaaiiit a minute - you won't have counted them at all! You'll just have estimated the number, based on probabilities.

Oh well, never mind. At least you'll have shown up the article's claim that the numbers were 'inestimab...' Waaaaiiit a minute! They didn't claim that at all and the only thing you'll have proved is that you're none too hot at this pedantry lark."

-The orignal article mentioned that it was _estimated_ that the cracking of the enigma code shortened the war by 2 years. It also mentioned that this had apparently saved countless lives. So... aproximately countless/2 lives saved per year?

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