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Hilarious. :) This is an "illusion" of sorts that works by ignoring contextual information. Sure, all that stuff is in pi, but it takes intelligence for someo
by techiferous 16y ago
Hilarious. :)
This is an "illusion" of sorts that works by ignoring contextual information. Sure, all that stuff is in pi, but it takes intelligence for someone to extract the right number of bits starting at the right position and decide to put that in a certain context where it makes sense (SSN, executable machine code, JPEG, etc.).
For example, the UTF-8 representation of this comment is somewhere in pi, but you can't say that the full information of this comment is in pi. Part of the information lies outside of pi, in the person who finds that part of pi and chooses to decode it as UTF-8.
- asciimo 16y agoI'd just grep for the ascii version of the comment.
- ansgri 16y agoAnd it directly follows that you can encode any document as 2 numbers: (start-index, length) in the Pi representation. Well, this is also a bad idea since you can always treat the entire document as one binary number...
- StavrosK 16y agoDid you know that absolutely anything you can imagine is encrypted with an OTP in the first N digits of pi, where N is the length of your information?
- Natsu 16y agoPity this sort of OTP is actually unbreakable. It's because you can find absolutely anything there that you can never be sure that you've found what you're looking for.
- DrJokepu 16y agoYou don't even need length because there must be an instance of the document in pi that is already prefixed by the correct length, so all you really need is the offset of the first occurrence of that variation.
- rlpb 16y agoIt's a shame that such an index-based encoding scheme will use more bits to store the index than the size of the document itself.