but she doesn't ask aloud. already, she feels rendered idiotic by the things she can't know and the things she wants to know. it isn't a pleasant position, and she can feel her very spirit bucking against the ignorance. it threatens to reignite her temper, but she gives her head a slow and reasserting shake. ]
I'm afraid I don't quite follow... [ she knows that things can be computed. and she knows of computational numbers. she knows of the american navy's torpedo data computer, and whispers of what zuse had done in germany. best of all, she knows the enigma machine. and so the thought of a computer best aligns with what she knows of bletchley park, and the girls there who were called exactly that as they worked on encryption and ciphers: computers. ]
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but she doesn't ask aloud. already, she feels rendered idiotic by the things she can't know and the things she wants to know. it isn't a pleasant position, and she can feel her very spirit bucking against the ignorance. it threatens to reignite her temper, but she gives her head a slow and reasserting shake. ]
I'm afraid I don't quite follow... [ she knows that things can be computed. and she knows of computational numbers. she knows of the american navy's torpedo data computer, and whispers of what zuse had done in germany. best of all, she knows the enigma machine. and so the thought of a computer best aligns with what she knows of bletchley park, and the girls there who were called exactly that as they worked on encryption and ciphers: computers. ]