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The Bombe machine did not work strictly by trial and error. It used an assumption of decoded text to eliminate most of the possibilities. Out of the 562,432 possible rotor combinations, the majority were eliminated by this method. https://media.defense.gov/2022/Sep/29/2003087366/-1/-1/0/SOLVING%20THE%20ENIGMA%20-%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20CRYPTANALYTIC%20BOMBE.PDF
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