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This is one of my favorite software projects of all time. I remember seeing this several years ago and it has driven my imagination crazy since then.

• WithinReason 4y ago
  But why?
  • imglorp 4y ago
    For me, it stimulates a mental shift that could be good exercise elsewhere: instead of storing the string, you find the string somewhere and store its index. It also stimulate the imagination: what other transcendental numbers might this work with? How long do you have to search in the digits to find your string? What can you say about the size of the index (how far you searched) vs your string length? Etc. It's patterns all the way down.
    • eapriv 4y ago
      It doesn’t even work with pi.
    • WithinReason 4y ago
      I don't want to be a buzzkill, but to me this seems uninteresting, you need more information to store the index than the data, end of story.