Jim 🔥
no one does. we think it’s something we inherited from the Romans and we’ve all been following the same instructions since. no-one has the ball’s to stick their hand up and ask.
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Jim 🔥
(no clue if this is helpful or not - but might be to passers by)… this is how I normally explain it down the pub — the Russian postal problem Metaphor: locking = multiply by really big random number (key), unlocking - divide by big number (key) … the trick being that keys never go in the post
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