When are semicolons correctly and effectively used? when joining clauses about separate ideas into one sentence when connecting related but independent clauses of a sentence when introducing an idea in one clause that the other clause describes when linking clauses with a coordinating conjunction such as and or but

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