u/nideht

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On Probability

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I've been thinking about certainty in codebreaking and the probabilities involved. Is a legible plaintext ever scrutinized mathematically for its likelihood, or do we rely entirely on how we feel about its improbability? Is the line between suspect and solution quantifiable?

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