The prisoner who revolutionized the Chinese language with a cup of tea


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[Euler’s 243-year-old “impossible” puzzle receives a quantum solution] Zhi feels very encouraged. His solitary work was in parallel with these greater efforts. Most of them, however, have not yet been able to free themselves from clumsy keyboards. While decomposing characters into components worked well enough for specific character recovery indexes and typewriter keyboard designs, it is not directly translated into the programming of such a process for a computer machine. Zhi recalled the advantage of the form-based approach, where parts of the character helped to identify the whole character directly. To integrate that useful principle into his coding scheme, Zhi...