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::Yes...how dare anyone try to make Wikipedia credible and consistent? The [[Automobile|Automobile]] entry should be entirely about the [[Ford Model T|Model T]], and the [[Equation|Equation]] entry can't cover anything but the [[Quadratic Equation|Quadratric equation]], else it's original research, according to [[User:Wasted Time R|Wasted Time R]]! Sheesh...and some people wonder why Wikipedia remains a joke! [[Special:Contributions/68.83.72.162|68.83.72.162]] ([[User talk:68.83.72.162|talk]]) 13:57, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 
:::Your analogies aren't apt. [[User:Wasted Time R|Wasted Time R]] ([[User talk:Wasted Time R|talk]]) 14:05, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
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:Ciphers which use a [[Straddling checkerboard]] (like the Russian "SNEGOPAD" cipher discussed in Kahn's ''Codebreakers'') are a way of encoding alphabets into two numbers with greater efficiency than a simple square matrix, but I don't know that they've ever been used with tap codes... [[User:AnonMoos|AnonMoos]] ([[User talk:AnonMoos|talk]]) 13:55, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 
::The prison context tap code has to be simple to teach, simple to learn, simple to use. It's expected that the prison guard population doesn't have any codebreakers among them. [[User:Wasted Time R|Wasted Time R]] ([[User talk:Wasted Time R|talk]]) 14:05, 8 December 2008 (UTC)