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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 07 January 2010 03:30:14AM * 1 point [-]

When I was a cryptographer, an information source with a .000001% bulge (information content above randomness) would break a code wide open for me.

In that case, a second information source of that quality wouldn't have been that much use to you.

The first person who gets it 95% right would be very valuable. But there are diminishing returns.