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Thank you, we had a lot of fun! Should point out that the developers are called 10 degrees, so 350 degrees short of a full circle unless you want to decimalise angles?

Good deduction about the Elves. At this time of year they have to split their time between forum moderation and delivery of presents!

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Have a soft spot for the Robert Redford movie Sneakers, probably because I loved the movie 3 days of the condor too. National Treasure is quite cipher challenge-y though. Nowadays usually spend at least some of Christmas with Sherlock. Shame there isn’t a new one this year.

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Easy one- The Code Book by Simon Singh.

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That depends on a lot of things. Not keen on snakes though!

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Clue 6:

Nearly there yet?

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Mince pies, wrapping presents, being kind to the Elves. Keeping an eye on the site to see how you are all getting on!

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Hard to say. I was blown away by the RSA cipher when first told about it. It made the Enigma cipher seem very old fashioned, but then I didn’t understand the subtlety of the Enigma back then and am very fond of it now. Maybe those choices are a bit predictable though. Hmmmmm.

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Good question. Lots of favourites. Bet you haven’t read “Group representations in Probability and Statistics” by Percy Diaconis! (or his fantastic book with Ron Graham called Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks – on second thoughts that is much more Christmassy!)

For fiction, this year Harry read (among other things) American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz. Hard to see a pattern there.

Waiting to be read on the shelf are Design Crazy by Max Chafkin (about Steve Jobs), Birth of a Theorem by Cédric Villani and the last three novels in the Jack Aubrey/ Maturin series by Patrick O’Brien. (The competition story was inspired in part by that series in 2006 and Harry has still not got round to finishing the series!)

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Pleas for another clue, so here you go. (There may be more to come – we will see!)

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Sure, feel free to start one!

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How many? That depends. How many do you think you need?

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Ready for clue 4?

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Oh, sorry! How about this one then?

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It should be rendering ok now (there was problem at first, but the link is fixed now)

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Here is part 2 of the clue!

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