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Why would a shuffle of 3 billion distinct cards be less unique than a shuffle of 52 distinct cards? > If you randomly generated 3 billion alphabet characters,
by philh 11y ago
Why would a shuffle of 3 billion distinct cards be less unique than a shuffle of 52 distinct cards?
> If you randomly generated 3 billion alphabet characters, would it be instructions for building a Saturn V rocket? The blueprints for building a single cell?
No. It would be a unique string of worthless jibberish.
Meanwhile, the instructions for a Saturn V rocket have probably been written down in at least two places. So if you have a copy of them, they're less unique than my random string, yet more special.
- bduerst 11y agoRight, the information is unique, not the medium. There are multiple copies of the Saturn V blueprints, just as there are multiple copies of the human genome in your cells. Is Lord of the Rings not unique because it's stored on multiple mediums?