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You can work around the restriction, and thus store any arbitrary information you wish, by encoding it as binary; e.g. "one zero one zero zero one..." :-)
by doodpants 4y ago
You can work around the restriction, and thus store any arbitrary information you wish, by encoding it as binary; e.g. "one zero one zero zero one..." :-)
- phdelightful 4y agoOnly if you also include instructions to decode it using the ten hundred most common words, I think!
- benj111 4y agoIf the first position is a one then it is a one, the next position is two times the number, position 3 is two times that number and so on. Each bite is 8 bits. Meaning 256 things to pick from. ASCII makes each letter a number which can fit in a bite. (I allowed myself ASCII on the basis that it isn't a word)