Friday, April 28, 2006

Smith Code Revealed- It Was Dreadnaught

A little disappointed? We are too. It was the HMS Dreadnought - who knew?

The judge on the DaVinci Code trial issued what's being called "smith code" in his ruling. You'll see reference to a naval event that occurred 100 years ago - wonder if there's more scandal to that event that could shed even more light? Anyway, kinda fun. Will "code talking" come back in style?
Yahoo here:

"But the lawyer, Dan Tench, cracked it after a day of puzzling. The judge's code was based on the Fibonacci sequence, a mathematical progression discussed in the book. After much trial and error, we found a formula which fitted," wrote Tench, who had nothing to do with the Brown case but discovered the italicized letters when studying the ruling. The judge's secret message was: "Jackie Fisher, who are you? Dreadnought," Tench wrote in the Guardian newspaper. Judge Smith is known as a navy buff, and Fisher was a Royal Navy admiral who developed the idea for a giant battleship called the HMS Dreadnought in the early 20th century. Tench wrote that the judge had e-mailed him to confirm he had guessed the secret code right. The judge later confirmed the existence of the code, and revealed that the Fibonacci sequence was indeed the secret to its solution. "The message reveals a significant but now overlooked event that occurred virtually 100 years to the day of the start of the trial," he said in a statement."