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Re:Superpermutations by teraflop on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:23AM (#18272578)
I think you must be misremembering; if you dial a sequence of 153 digits, you can't possibly test more than 149 different 5-digit substrings.
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Re:Superpermutations by Zanni on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:38AM (#18272625)
Possibly. It was 20 years ago. I'm reconstructing via my (possibly flawed) understanding of the linked article. (My vague recollection was something like 250 digits for a 4-digit passcode.)

And I just realized I mistakenly conflated 5-digit permutations of 5 digits with 5-digit passcodes of 10 digits. Whoops.

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Re:Superpermutations by JdeBP on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @12:16PM (#18293757)
Why not just re-read RISKS?

* https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7/69#subj5.1

* https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7/73#subj4.1

* https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9/68#subj2.1

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