Safe Cracking with Feynman - Numberphile
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Professor Roger Bowley chats with Brady Haran from Numberphile about some of the ways legendary physicist Richard Feynman cracked safes (filing cabinets) at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
When you add in the fact that the number above and below the number you check can open the safe, how many combinations do you have?
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