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Season 41 · Episode 4 of 5 Aired Dec 28, 2006

The Case of the Uncrackable Code

Thu, Dec 28, 2006
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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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Thu, Dec 28, 2006

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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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S41 · E4

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