She stopped. Needed to get back on track. Just needed a starting point to get at the stuff he’d keep secret. Confidence, military. How would he pick a four digit number?
Wait, is she trying to get into a safe of his, or something similar? He doesn’t seem to be the boss of this shop, so it seems more likely that she’s here because he is than anything else.
Confident and military trained; goes out of his way to keep numbers random.
People suck at being random, but with a little help from a computer, we can do alright.
Kind of ironic, that.
Looks early thirties; born late 70’s. Tendency to go with higher number to start. 8 or 9, mid-range number like four, five or six, then high, low, no repeating numbers.
That narrows things down a bit. If we assume he’s sticking to this tendency and assume 7 counts as a high-range number and 0 is available, that takes the possibilites down from 10000 to 48, if my math is correct.
Dressing in darker jacket, pants, trimmed beard, conservative; number will be even-even-odd-odd or odd-odd-even-even.
Let’s see:
For the first pattern, there’s 8{4 or 6}{7 or 9}{1 or 3}.
For the latter one, we have {7 or 9}582.
That leaves 10 combinations. Lisa is already 1000 times more likely to get it right by picking randomly between the possible combinations than she’d be without this knowledge.
“Something else,” she murmured to herself, as the flow of information began to slow. If it slowed enough, it meant that there weren’t enough points of reference to generate new data, it could even mean her power would start supplying information based on speculation or falsehoods.
Interesting. So if she’s operating on false premises, Tattle might even get further false info from her power, then?
She chanced a look at the cashier, but the girl was studiously ignoring her, for the time being.
I guess she really doesn’t want to try confronting the girl that sent her coworker running.
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