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All those of those are examples of numbers that have already been discovered, not preemptively banning numbers yet to be found.
by oreo81 9y ago
All those of those are examples of numbers that have already been discovered, not preemptively banning numbers yet to be found.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoThey still pre-emptively ban numbers, for instance if they represent something illegal: "Any image file or an executable program can be regarded as simply a very large binary number. In certain jurisdictions, there are images that are illegal to possess, due to obscenity or secrecy/classified status, so the corresponding numbers could be illegal." Also, the concept of "numbers yet to be found" is philosophically questionable.