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		pmontra on April 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (20... Maybe it's an unfair example but: the number of people on Earth. We know the quantity more or less, the leftmost digit in base ten, then it's a lot of work to figure out the other digits.

Dylan16807 on April 30, 2024 [–]

Definitely unfair, because we're discussing this as a way to encode and decode a string of numbers into a single number, no measurements involved.

And factoring the number of people on earth would be just as hard.

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