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Given that definition, you can't encode anything as a number. I think someone pointed out above it's the number + the decoding method that is needed for it to
by loumf 17y ago
Given that definition, you can't encode anything as a number. I think someone pointed out above it's the number + the decoding method that is needed for it to be useful and that applies to images or even the gzip and ELF examples in the article. If I give you the number, but don't tell you it's a gzip of a C program, you probably won't be able to decode it easily.
- Rod 17y agoNot quite. One can encode anything into a number. Decoding is what it's hard, especially so if one does not know what the encoding scheme was. I suppose this is one of the reasons why NSA needs astronomical amounts of computational power.