User talk:STSS

Welcome to the Wikipedia. You'll find it an interesting place, and I hope your experience here is enjoyable.

I'm particularly interested in your comments about the al-Kadi paper on Arabic contributions to cryptorgraphy. Do you mean to say that he reported that al-Kindi did work equivalent to Alberti and to Pascal/Fermat's work on probability? I'd appreciate some clarification on these points, if possible. The Arabic contribution to frequency analysis seems to have been well known, but the new manuscripts al-Kadi reported on seem fascinating. Can you begin an article on them? ww 16:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)