Brass Thingey?

[akl439]

Lovely small solid brass (heavy) padlock? It has six barrels which revolve, each has seven letters of the alphabet on, all quite random. It measures 3.5cm x 3.5cm. If it is a brass padlock, what would it have been used on and why letters not numbers? I'm intrigued and would value any information someone could give. There must be so many possible combinations to opening this it would take years!

 

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[La Beep]

...........and why letters not numbers? !

Think about it.. If the place is a letter, it has 26 different variations, (a-z) whereas a number place has only ten. Makes it harder to "crack"

Would this not be irrelevant of the lock drums all have only seven fixed alpha/numeric choices anyways? Mathematically - the chances of figuring it out would be the same.

you do got a point there!

Yep --- 7^6 = 117649 so there's 117649 possible combinations.

Huh... that IS strange, kinda defeats the purpose of using letters in the first place...

Some people remember letter better then numbers.