Yet modern computing and statistical techniques are now able to resolve one longstanding debate about the poem.

Now the power of modern computing has finally cracked a 64-year-old wartime enigma.

Thanks to modern computing power, so-called “triplestores” now exist with hundreds of billions of entries on every topic imaginable.

But the calculations needed to map them were too complex until the arrival of modern computing.

The keyboards necessary for modern computing, the author continues, were first invented as a way of making music.