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OCR: Britain Hidden Weapon The most important na life-and-death puzzle set to mathematicians during the 2nd World War was to put of crack the output of the German Lorenz coding machine team of some of the best scientists and mathematicians ir Britain including Alan Turing one of the founders 01 computer science SC were assembled at Bletchley Park. There they worked with a machine called Colossus, one of the very first electronic in computers Their efforts were successful. From quite early on in the war. British intelligence .00e the officers were able to read intercepted German dispatches. But. as they dared not reveal their ability to decode the messages they could rarely act on the information they gained buzzt assemblec informatior