The Case of Known-Unknown

The Scientist

Fifteen

22nd March 2003

3.55 P.M.

   'Holy shit! This is all just preposterous.' Dexter exclaimed, shocked, impressed.

   'Jesus. This can't be any coincidence. Can't believe it.' Akash was astonished.

   'This guy's a pure genius.' Dexter said, zooming into the piece of paper. 'He could have been a writer, for all it matters.'

   'SHO Syna, you're good at this.' Akash appreciated Syna, making her blush immediately.

   'So, John Wallis's infinity has to be –'

   'The title of his theory or perhaps, Abort's real name.'

   'What are we waiting for, then? Let's try and arrange the jumbled words.'

   'Or even better. Use the internet. There are a lot of freely available softwares which can arrange any jumbled word.' Syna offered.

Dexter took the lead and started clicking on the keyboard furiously.

He stopped at the word,

"INPUT"

   'Type John Wallis. Let's go systematically, one by one.' Syna said and Dexter obliged. After typing the name, he clicked on,

"GO"

Words kept blinking and dancing randomly, trying to match with each other. After a few seconds, fifty words showed up, with different word limits. Fifty words meant fifty names and fifty vast possibilities, trying out all the permutation-combinations which would match with the suspect's name would prove time-consuming. And time they couldn't afford.

   'Change the word length limit to seven.' Dexter did what was asked of him and clicked on the "GO" button again. The same blinking dance of words, and then came the result. They pressed their hands together, hoping to find something exclusive.

7 -word limit: 12 results,

Joh Inwalls

Jin Hallows

Jin Shallow.... Show more

They looked at one another, with shocked faces. The two names displayed were their only leads, unless they tried another combination.

   'The second name makes more sense to me, or should we try infinity?' Dexter asked.

   'Why don't you search for that name, "Jin Hallows". The code said that he was a professor. Now, if we have the correct name, then surely we will find something about him.' Akash said.

Dexter opened a new window and searched for "Jin Hallows". He waited impatiently, his heart beating fast. The screen displayed a few results.

   'Nope. I can see people with the name, "Jin Hallows" but their nationality is not Indian.'

   'Well then, we should try and add Infinity.' Akash shook his head and asked him to search for all the twelve names, one by one.

   'Type in Professor Hallows.' Syna said. 'Just Hallows?' Dexter asked.