Read the excerpt below and answer the question. when a son was born to confucius, the king of lu sent over a carp as present. confucius named his son carp. the wise say a carp leaping over the dragon gate is a very lucky sign. my father says he named me cloud because i was born in the year of the dragon: there are always clouds following a dragon. confucius' son died an early death. my father has only three daughters. knowing that the carp is a symbol in chinese culture, what can be inferred from this excerpt from wang's "the carp"?

One of the author’s purposes in the code book is to explain different types of codebreaking to his readers. which line best demonstrates this purpose? a theoretical breakthrough would be a fundamentally new way of finding alice's private key mathematicians have been studying factoring for centuries, and modern factoring techniques are not significantly better than ancient techniques a more recent development is the so-called tempest attack, which aims to detect the electromagnetic signals emitted . . in a computer's display unit if scientists could build a quantum computer, it would be able to perform calculations with . . enormous speed