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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: Season 2006

2006x04 The Num8er My5teries: The Case of the Uncrackable Code

  • 2006-12-28T20:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
From the Caesar Cipher to the Da Vinci Code, people have been fascinated by secret messages. The mathematics of codes lets us to do everything from photographing the surface of Mars to shopping securely on eBay. Find out how prime numbers are now the key to codes which protect credit cards from internet hackers, and how, in the digital age, i-pods and digital TV are just a load of 0s and 1s.
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