
Over half the fourth mistake and comparable to the original scheduling mistake. If we assume Penbar was tasked 200 leads out of the 10,000, then murdering him and the fiancee dropped Light just 6 bits or a little

What his scheduling cost him and almost 8 times the murder of Tailor! 5. This mistake cost him 11 bits of anonymity in other words, this mistake cost him twice This mistake was the largest in bits lost. Mistake was to use confidential police information stolen using his policeman father’s credentials. Taking the bait let L narrow his target down to 1⁄3 the original Japanese population, for a gain of ~1.6 bits. Light’s third mistake was reacting to the blatant provocation of Lind L. Just the scheduling of deaths cost Light 6 bits of anonymity Worse, the deaths are non-random in other ways-they tend to occur at particular times! (To deter criminals and villains, it is not necessary for there toīe a globally-known single anomalous or supernatural killer, when it would be equally effective to arrange for all the killings to beĭone naturalistically by ordinary mechanisms such as third parties/police/judiciary or used indirectly as parallel Justification may be, this is a major victory for his opponents. Impossibly precise and something profoundly anomalous is going on. Killing through heart attacks does not just make him visible early on, but the deaths reveals that his assassination method is Light’s fundamental mistake is to kill in ways unrelated to his goal. Light’s initial anonymity and how L gradually de-anonymizes him, and consider which mistake was the largest as follows: Death Note is almost a thought-experiment-given the perfect murder weapon, how can you screw up anyway? IĬonsider the various steps of L’s process from the perspective of computer security, cryptography, and information theory, to quantify The genius detective L attempts to track him down with analysis and trickery, and

In the manga Death Note, the protagonist Light Yagami is given the supernatural weapon “Death Note” which can kill anyone onĭemand, and begins using it to reshape the world.
