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Private amusement embedded in a court judgement in the ''DaVinci Code''
The Smithy code is a series of letters embedded, as a private amusement, within the April 2006 approved judgement of Mr Justice Peter Smith on The Da Vinci Code copyright case. The judge publicly admitted that "I can't discuss the judgement, but I don't see why a judgement should not be a matter of fun." It was first broken, in the same month, by Dan Tench, a lawyer who writes on media issues for The Guardian, after he received a series of email clues about it from Justice Smith. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Smithy codeA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Voyages of discoveryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Metal-smithy, Bead-making, Jeweler’s weight, Trade-permit, Tax-stamp: Indus Script’s Semasiography Partly DecodedCited 0 times
- Go sideways: Classical cipherA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Four-square cipherA closely related topic
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- 📕Voyages of discoveryInternational Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers. Conference · 2005
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