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Old October 23rd, 2005, 04:08 PM
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Default Re: What is the etymology of your moniker?

Interesting thread...
I've often wondered where some of these names came from, so it's only fair that I add my own brief tale.

As I see has been true in several other cases, my moniker is the result of searching for a name for internet use. I started joining a few sites while I was getting my computer science degree, and we were probablly talking about ciphers in one of the classes, so that part of the name just sort of fell out of me at the time. Not only did I find my chosen name to be taken, it was taken in plenty of variations. So, undaunted, I added the extension 7071, which is merely the first four digits in the sine of 45 degrees (or half the square root of 2), and a number that I remember. Thus, Cipher7071.


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