True, but fully half the safes had the exact same combination 2-3-5...
He actually was able to open a locked bank vault. When he was about 12 he was taking apart and repairing radios and gadgets that neighbors brought to him. He “invented”{ his own calculus when he was in high schools rather than the rote stuff in the textbook. Sort like Newton himself did, thinking of it as a tool to answer problems. Very deep into the concrete world. Which is why Niels Bohr lied him. Bohr was, I think, much “deeper” into reality. Deeply curious about sensible things.